Book Review: Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work

Authors

Mary Clearman Blew, University of Idaho

Date of this Version

2004

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:1 (Winter 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

After the publication of her first book, Windbreak, by Barn Owl Books in 1987, Linda Hasselstrom became a small press legend. Disseminated by word of mouth, Windbreak established Hasselstrom as one of the best-known voices speaking on behalf of cattle ranchers on the Great Plains. In her early books (Windbreak was followed by Going Over East, which won a Fulcrum Award in 1987), Hasselstrom's persona was that of an articulate ranch woman, committed to the South Dakota community where she had grown up and to the land where she and her husband worked beside her rancher father.