No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments A brief version of “Selling the Ranch” appeared in some western newspapers as “A Dispatch from the New West Battleground,” syndicated by Writers on the Range for High Country News. “Dear John: How to Move to the Country” appeared in slightly different form as “Dear John: Moving to the Country,” in the “Death of the New West?” issue of divide, August 2003, pp. 14–17, published by the Program for Writing and Rhetoric, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. “The School Bus Driver Waved” was published in some western newspapers as “Aggressive Waving,” syndicated by Writers on the Range for High Country News. An early version of “The Beauty of Responsibility” was published as “Responsibility” in “What the World Needs Now: Twelve Honest Answers,” Orion, Spring 2002, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 32–33. “Watching for Grizzlies Anyway” was published in slightly different form as “The Wild Boy and the Community Stew” in Owen Wister Review, 2007, ed. Ken Steinken, pp. 74–79. Jane Kirkpatrick’s words in “Recycling Freedom” are quoted with permission from her novel Hold Tight the Thread (Waterbrook Press, Colorado Springs, co, 2004). An early version of “Tattoos and a Thong” appeared as “Thermopolis, Wyoming,” Northern Lights, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 9. “Learning the Names of Cows” and “Investigating the Heron Murders” were published in early versions by Great River Review, Spring/Summer 1998, no. 28, pp. 65–76. Different versions of “Learning the Names of Cows” and “The Case of the Purloined Canoe,” retitled “The Stolen Canoe Mystery,” were published as “No Place Like Home” in Richard L. Knight x Nn Acknowledgments et al., eds., Ranching West of the 100th Meridian: Culture, Ecology, and Economics (Island Press, Washington dc, 2002). “Pray for Me I Drive Highway 79” was first published in Paddlefish, Mt. Marty College, Yankton, sd, 2008. “Sounding the Writing Mudhole” has been much revised since it appeared as “Reimagining Windbreak House” in Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2001, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 74–90. An early version of “Who’s Driving the Subdivision?” was published as “When Flooding Drops a House in a Hayfield” in High Country News, September 2007. no place like home ...