The Last Ranch: A Colorado Community and the Coming Desert (Paperback)

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Colorado’s San Luis Valley is a land of broad, expansive range ringed by massive mountains that is visited only rarely by rain, about eight inches a year. It is also a place where a small enclave of ranchers struggle to make a living, fighting not only the elements but a host of forces–politics, the pressures of modern culture and technology, the marketplace–that conspire to put an end to their generations-old community. For a year beginning in 1992, nat (more…)