Wastewater inundation causes a commotion in South Dakota.
Items by Linda M. Hasselstrom
A short day's drive from where you live can you put in touch with local history and help you meet new people in fascinating small towns.
Embracing a wet summer in South Dakota (and the mosquitoes that come with it).
Homeowners in disaster-prone zones need to be self-sufficient.
In her memoir, Riding the Edge of an Era, Diana Allen Kouris relates the life described in her subtitle’s words: Growing Up Cowboy on the Outlaw Trail.
In The Family Ranch: Land, Children and Tradition in the American West, Linda Hussa looks at the way modern rural families live their lives.
It’s not just the butterflies who respond to Linda
Hasselstrom’s lavish wildflower garden in Cheyenne,
Wyoming.
Linda M. Hasselstrom sinks us deep into a relentlessly
snowy day.
The writer makes a donation to someone she will never
meet
The writer teaches herself a humbling chore —
cleaning up other people's garbage
The writer sings the praises of rhubarb
The writer says bison aren’t Buicks and neither are
domestic cows
The writer says we’ll ditch gas-guzzling vehicles
once we devise the right propaganda campaign
The writer imagines a West populated by African wildlife
as a bizarre "home on the veldt"
The writer lauds the quiet life of the Great Plains, a
region touching 10 states and a few lucky people
The writer reveals what real estate ads mean when they say
a former ranch is "pristine," "exclusive," or "scenic"
Why do newcomers to the West need to build such obnoxious
entrance gates to their brand-new ranchettes?
The writer watches some of her neighbors puff up their
places with gigantic entrance gates
The writer calls prairie dogs "prairie rats," and
she’d like New Yorkers to share their city with
them
The writer removes a bumper sticker after receiving too
many threats
The auction and sub-dividing of a neighboring ranch leads
the author to fear for the future of her ranching
community.
The government agencies that use M-44s to kill coyotes
claim that the cyanide causes a quick and painless death, but a
rancher’s experience indicates that the truth is tragically
different.
Minutiae matters in rural South Dakota.
There is a quickening in the land.
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