In text that quotes from and distills extensive interviews, and in 120 expertly captured black & white photos, the author profiles women ranchers living throughout the West, dispelling the notion
"Zarzyski, the best of the best, includes over thirty poems . . . which truly showcase his life and soul . . . [and] along with photographs by Barbara Van Cleve capture the grit of the rodeo
In the vernacular of the West, the term pure quill means “authentic; real, through and through.” Barbara Van Cleve’s gripping black-and-white photographs of the West she knows and loves give vision to