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Title: Straight West : Portraits and Scenes from Ranch Life in the American West by Verlyn Klinkenborg ISBN: 1585740543 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5

Rating: 5
Summary: Straight Pictures from Straight West
Comment: This is a wonderful visual description of the disappearing west that many of us know from folklore and honest movies. Lindy has an uncanny knack with the black and white photo and delivers a perspective that very striking and makes one think deep thoughts about what is a "cowboy." The book is the epitome of a coffee-table book and will spark many a constructive conversation.

Rating: 5
Summary: The straight stuff
Comment: Straight West seems to me to be the real west--people, animals and landscape in work clothes. Both text and pictures spoke to me of real people in real places doing real work and living real lives. How refreshing after a lifetime of Hollywood's version of The West. I found certain of Smith's pictures--Looking Toward Mexico, Going After Cattle, Sheep Convention, Ranch Cabin, and Dude Ranch String, to name just a few--so compelling I keep turning back to them, wondering about the stories they tell--or don't tell: the stories they are hiding, waiting for the reader's imagination to flesh out. Klinkenborg's essays are a valuable part of the book. I especially liked the artist-at-work explanations he gave of his wife's labor over developing and printing the photographs. It is really a book to treasure.

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Title: The Rural Life by Verlyn Klinkenborg ISBN: 0316741671 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00