Born to This Land

Journeying into "the rugged breaks that skirt the eastern rim of the Llano Estacado -- West Texas ranch country at once attractive and repellent to the uninitiated" -- Steagall and Hagler prove unequivocally that verse and image are kindred spirits. According to B. Byron Price, director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, they have succeeded in unifying poetry and photography, allowing us to "understand and interpret the essence of a solitary land and...