For two years, acclaimed Colorado nature photographer John Fielder turned his large format camera in the direction of fifty of the state's most beautiful working ranches. 375 color photographs of 50 ranches. Essays based on interviews with 10 ranch families.
The year environmentalist Sam Bingham spent in Colorado's San Luis Valley showed him that environmental disasters of global consequence are happening in our own backyard.
... 1889 Vigil - Gallino Ranch , 1888 Jose Urbano Vigil Ranch , 1869 PUEBLO COUNTY Cawlfield Farms , 1891 San Carlos ... 1886 C. Henry Moellenberg Farm , 1887 National Homestead , 1887 Pfeiler Farm , 1886 The S Lazy Ranch , 1886 Shaw ...
The counties of Colfax, Mora, Harding, Union, and San Miguel became the location of some of the great Historic ranches of the West.
Portraits of eight men and women who eloquently describe their long lives on Colorado mountain ranches complete the volume.