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z 436 z ect index n abandoned ranch: discovery of, xv–xvii, 204, 254 amnesia, historical, 351 animals, barnyard, 7–8, 239–41 passim, 310 animals, wild, 73, 146; ants, western harvester, 75, 89–90; beaver, 73, 94, 144; in Foothills Life Zone, 84–85, 91–93; grazers and browsers, 73, 77, 87, 88, 156, 157; local extinctions of, 73, 88, 89, 142, 156–57; Preble’s meadow jumping mouse, 91–93; prehistoric, 76, 86; rabbit, 75, 77, 85–86 aridity, 7–8, 10, 83, 208–9, 219–20. See also climate; drought; rain and precipitation artwork, xxiv, 128, 304–5, 389; landscape drawings, 148–50, 162–63, 304; oil painting, frontispiece, 239 automobiles, 65, 67, 141–42, 274, 276–78 biography, xxi–xxii, xxiv, 320, 322, 355, 369 birds, 84–86, 152, 240 birth control, 323, 328–29, 336, 400 blizzards, 8–9, 22, 65, 83, 107, 208–9, 215, 223, 289 bull whip, 168, 199 Cabinets of Wonder, 255, 348, 352 cameras, 29, 46, 56 cattle, 209, 213, 210–15, 282–83; branding, 98, 210–11, 274; breeds, 62, 96–97, 98, 212–13, 282–83; effects on grassland, 87–88, 95; in the high country, 142, 156, 158–60; shipping, 97, 212. See also ranching, summer range cattle drives, 134, 145, 175, 178, 179, 185, 271–77, 280 character, 168, 183, 192–93, 198, 231; dogs and horses reflecting, 173, 175, 176, 179, 180; friends reflecting, 183, 186, 188 child birth/death, 9, 14, 67–69, 328 climate, 7, 65, 73, 83–84; warming of, 222–23 communal land: becoming private, xvii– xviii, 206 community life, 97, 256 community stories, 320, 322, 338, 344 companionship, 163, 233–34, 334 cowboys, 20, 168, 170; becoming ranchers, 17–19, 25–27, 185, 186, 188; and community morals, 25, 167, 170, 187; images of, 167, 168, 169–70, 200; as ranch hands, 183–88. See also hired hands cowman, 167, 170, 188 death, 231, 242, 345, 347, 353–59 passim death, early: of father, 33; of mother, 6, 30, 31, 34; of wife, 30, 32, 34 divorce, 34, 61, 111, 200–201, 330, 400 ect index 437 dogs, 180–82 domestic life, 69–70, 106, 232–34, 239–60 passim; cooking and food, 61, 244–45, 246–49; and decorum, 234; in the high country, 161–62; on the high plains, 9–10, 36–37; meals and table routines, 182, 250–52; and women’s magazines, 233–34; and women’s sociality, 255–56 drought: in the foothills, 65, 67, 84, 87, 208–9, 216, 223; on the plains, 5, 10, 27, 39, 97 ecology, 87–88, 217, 221–23, 312–13; foothills ecosystems, 84, 313–17 passim; foothills grasslands, 85–89, 90, 91; the Foothills Life Zone, 83–93 education, college, 20, 104, 105–6, 119– 20, 121, 132 electrification, 12, 236, 288–89 environmental awareness, xxv–xxvi, 135, 308; and ranching, 221, 309–13, 390–91 exploration, Euro-American, xv, 71 farming, 7–10, 27–28, 206, 244 fires, 73, 77, 85, 222, 300, 349, 351 floods, 45, 349 foothills topography, ii, xix, 15–16, 44, 74, 82–83, 269 forests, 149–50, 269, 312–17, 411. See also trees Forest Service, U.S. (USFS), 136, 150, 151, 155–56, 158, 161, 203, 276, 311–12 freighting, 11, 20–25 gardens, kitchen and flower, 242–44 geology, 80–83, 147, 357 gold rush, 16, 94, 109 grasslands and grasses, 7, 85, 86–88, 146, 156–57, 218–19, 221 graves, 15, 152, 157–58, 295; and graveyards, 295, 357–59; and memorials, 347, 356–59; unmarked, 186, 385–86 growing season, 84, 243–44 guns, 50, 153, 168, 284 hands, hired, 13, 16, 18, 19, 183–86; carefree ways and maternalism, 187–88; pay and treatment, 185–86. See also cowboys haves and have-nots, 7–8, 106, 110, 269– 70; reversals of fortune, 278–79, 331. See also social status haying, 98, 148, 208–9, 215–16, 218, 276, 379 high country, the, xviii, 11, 82, 139–64 passim history projects of the 1950s, 200, 298– 99, 301 history writing, xxii, xxiv, 183, 298–302, 347; and biography, 48, 257, 320; and inconvenient truths, xxi–xxii, 299; materials, drafts, venues, 297– 98, 300; neglected subjects, 187, 232. See also oral testimony homesteading, 7, 15, 62–63, 96–97, 101, 207–8 horses, 3–4, 62, 159–60, 173–80 passim, 210, 217–18, 277; treatment of, 24, 27, 176, 177–79, 180; and women, 42, 64, 159...

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