Grit: Fighting for Western Land, Life and Liberty

by C.J. Hadley (Editor)

RANGE Magazine was founded in 1989 with a deep admiration for those who carry out their lives amid the vast, lightly populated outback of America, where a spirit and a culture well apart from the nation’s sprawling cities and towns still endures. This is not, however, just a collection of fine writing and memorable art. It is a witness to an epic struggle between the governmental grip of authority over liberty in the American West. These are the stories of the ranchers and food producers of the West whose livelihood and very existence are being assailed by the forces of government, commerce and unrestrained environmentalism. GRIT details what has been happening to western land, life, and liberty, and no one who reads it will be unaffected by the spirit of America’s outback that its storytellers bring to life.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2008