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Author Klepper, E. Dan, author, photographer

Title Why the raven calls the canyon : off the grid in Big Bend Country / E. Dan Klepper
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Texas photography series ; Number ten
Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Texas photography series ; no. 10.
Contents Fresno Ranch -- Labors -- Leisures -- Dogs -- Horses -- Neighbors -- Haircuts -- Canyons -- Floods -- Skies -- Appendix: List of images -- Index -- About the author
Summary Fresno Ranch, an abandoned horse and mule operation located in a remote stretch of the Rio Grande River bordering Mexico, gives evidence of a human presence spanning centuries. The ranch saw a period of entrepreneurial mule breeding and ranching, and ownership by Texas artist and publishing heiress Jeanne Norsworthy, who built an off-the-grid, hand-constructed adobe studio on the premises. Photographer and freelance writer E. Dan Klepper spent seven years, off and on, living and working at Fresno Ranch. By 2008, when the 7,000-acre property was acquired by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Departme
Notes Includes index
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Subject Klepper, E. Dan -- Travel -- Texas -- Big Bend Region -- Pictorial works
Ranch life -- Texas -- Big Bend Region -- Pictorial works
Self-reliant living -- Texas -- Big Bend Region -- Pictorial works
Sustainable living -- Texas -- Big Bend Region -- Pictorial works
Photography, Artistic.
art photography.
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals.
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes.
Travel / United States / South / West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)
Photography, Artistic
Ranch life
Self-reliant living
Sustainable living
Travel
SUBJECT Big Bend Region (Tex.) -- Pictorial works
Subject Texas -- Big Bend Region
Genre/Form Electronic books
Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016031272
ISBN 162349494X
1623494931
9781623494933
9781623494940