Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch

Mary Zeiss Stange's story of running a bison ranch with her husband in southeastern Montana--on the outskirts of nowhere and far-from-here--is a narrative of survival in a landscape and a society at once harsh and alluring. In this series of essays she illustrates the realities of ranch life at a time when the New West of subdivision, ranchettes, telecommuting, and tourism collides with the True West of too much, too little, too hard, and too harsh. This society is molded by the climate, an...