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Linda Hasselstrom s lyrical journal grows, organically, out of a passionate love for the land, the land s creatures, and the land s people, present and part of her personal past. This enduring, endearing litany of a year in the life of a writer, a poet, and a rancher takes us deep into the heart of what it means to belong to a place, to live a deeply-rooted life to grow old with the land and to remain young with it, too. A precious glimpse into a year richly, uniquely, profoundly lived. --Susan Wittig Albert: author of Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, and other memoirs, historical fiction, and mysteries, including the China Bayles series This book is a rumination on the daily lives of an extraordinary writer-rancher, on the folk who raised her, and on the many ways physical and spiritual in which grass has sustained them and their cattle on this daunting South Dakota land. Hasselstrom s new journal, created day by day over an entire year, one blade at a time, unfolds like a new season s grasses. On the horizon, encircling everything she has seen, are echoes from the past. In offering a companion volume to her thirty-year-old Windbreak, Hasselstrom brings her prairie to life and puts her own self, and her forebears, under the microscope and makes sense of what once seemed chaotic. --Alan Wilkinson: British author who writes of the American Plains author of The Red House on the Niobrara and other books

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About the Author

Linda M. Hasselstrom owns a small family ranch in western South Dakota. Her seventeen published books of poetry and nonfiction include Feels Like Far: A Rancher s Life on the Great Plains, autobiographical essays. Cultural anthropologist Richard Nelson, author of Patriotism and the American Land, said of Feels Like Far: Linda Hasselstrom knows the land, feels the land, breathes the land, as only a child of the land can do. Her heart was carved by the South Dakota wind. Her bones were made from the South Dakota soil. When Linda Hassel­strom writes, it is the South Dakota prairies writing their own stories. . . . [her] writing is like a black Dakota night riven by lightning flashes and bursts of rain, full of fury and power and raw, brilliant beauty. With the Great Plains Native Plant Society, Hasselstrom dedicated the Claude A. Barr Memorial Great Plains Garden in 2001 to preserve native shortgrass prairie plants on 350 acres of her ranch, and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies established a riparian protection area on her land along Battle Creek.

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Product details

Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: High Plains Pr (September 20, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1937147134

ISBN-13: 978-1937147136

Product Dimensions:

6 x 1.1 x 8.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

5.0 out of 5 stars

12 customer reviews

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#843,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This is an engrossing book, by an author whose books I've read and enjoyed for decades. The previous reviews are eloquent; there's not much more that I can add, other than to urge you to read the book. I think you'll get more out of it if you've already read her other books based on her life, as I have: Windbreak, Going Over East, Land Circle, and especially relevant to this newest book is Feels Like Far, which was a harder book for me to read as it dealt with her parents' dementia at a time when I was dealing with my own mother's dementia due to Alzheimer's. Read, think, enjoy, as I have.

Like many of us, author and rancher Linda Hasselstrom's relationship with place is complex, shaped by family and history and choices along the way. Unlike most of us, she knows exactly where the place that made her is: a small ranch in western South Dakota, a square mile of windswept blue grama grass prairie, rich with life and lives, from pronghorn antelope and prairie voles to red-winged blackbirds and wild roses.A town girl who moved to the ranch at age nine when her mother married the man who became the only father she knew, the man who showed her how to ride and work cows, to read the prairie, to search the sky for clues to the Plains' famously violent weather, Hasselstrom happily became the son he never had, much to her mother's dismay."Before I started reading my father's and mother's journals, and re-reading mine, I could look back at my childhood and see it as all one lovely day glowing in the sunlight of nostalgia. I worked cattle with my father while my mother fixed meals and cleaned house, trying to interest me in those activities. They went to dances on Saturday nights, took me to 4-H meetings, and visited friends in the community. We were a happy ranching family. ... It would be easy to be poetically positive about those days but I know some of my nostalgia is false. The world was fluid and shifting even then."Fluid and shifting indeed. In the early 1990s, after her husband George's terrible illness and death, while Hasselstrom was managing both deep grief and the ranch, her father ordered her to chose between writing and ranching. When she refused, he forced her to leave her home and disinherited her. Much later, she learned that his irrational treatment and his rages at her were likely due to several strokes and the early stages of dementia. Still!Hasselstrom stayed away from the ranch for decades, until finally, with both her father and mother dead, she returned with Jerry, her current life-partner. Gathering from the Grassland is thus a journal of re-discovery, the daily record of a year of fully embracing this land that was the gift that grounded her in childhood and gave her roots as an adult, before being wrenched from her in middle age.It is also a reckoning of sorts, as Hasselstrom sets out to read her parents' journals and her own in an attempt to come to some kind of clearer—or at least more compassionate—understanding of the people who made her, and why the family that seemed so happy in her childhood memories went so awry.Hasselstrom's journal is a rich record, not just of family and the ways we both nurture and betray each other, but also of the land that shaped her and continues to provide her inspiration, solace, and community. Woven through it are pithy and sometimes poignant observations of ranch life, an existence nourished by that same land."October 2. Wasps and stinkbugs everywhere. I froze ten pints of peppers. I've done all this digging in my mother's past because I want to understand her so perhaps I can wholeheartedly forgive her, lay her to rest more completely than I did when the funeral home tucked her into her coffin."This book is a real look at real life and a real place, at the pain we inflict on each other, and the healing grace of being in place, of knowing a piece of ground so intimately that its seasons become a part of flesh and bone. Hasselstrom's voice is as authentic as the harsh and wild prairie it springs from, by turns reflective, cranky, impatient, and lyrical.Like the South Dakota ground, Gathering from the Grassland isn't always a comfortable read, but it is fascinating and full of insight into the nature of life, the messy and complex and breathtakingly beautiful relationships that weave this world.by Susan J. Tweitfor Story Circle Book Reviewsreviewing books by, for, and about women

for AmazonIn the Eighties, when I was riding circuit among the UU’s in Montana, Linda Hasselstrom was keeping a journal of her fight to save the family ranch, which became “Windbreak House.” (1987) It was part of a cluster of books by rural women authors that included Mary Clearman Blew, Teresa Jordan, Judy Blunt, Sharon Butala, and others born just before or during WWII when the shortage of men made room for wives, daughters and sisters to be “cowboys.” I thought of myself as one of them, though I was not a rancher, but I found other paths. I no longer feel I am a Montana writer, but probably still a prairie writer.Linda’s publishers have sent me her most recent books to review: “Gathering from the Grassland: A Plains Journal” from High Plains Press, and “Dakota Bones, Grass, Sky” from Spoon River Poetry Press. This is the way publishing is now: local books sponsored by small presses and dependent on far too few reviewers. I am not ordinarily a reviewer, but this is not just a service to a friend, but also to the local readers who prowl the library.Linda had to leave the home ranch now and then to make a living or because of family dynamics, a familiar force, both for change and for tenacity. Generational sequences of marriages, divorces, deaths, and the occasional stretch of time so sweet that it’s a talisman through all the rest — these are the maps of our lives. Questions arise in the search for solutions. And then solutions are found. And decisions: both of us decided not to have children and don’t regret it.Ways we are alike are that Linda’s mother tried desperately to make a ruffled pink lady out of her with no better luck than mine. Ways we are different is that Linda’s stepfather was her role model, her mentor, and — in the end — her betrayer when he lost his mind. My father was never a hero, losing his mind gradually due to an auto accident concussion in 1948. It was my first, only, and last husband whose relationship to me was like Linda’s dad’s. The family struggle across generations is made stark against the background of an unforgiving land. It’s never really solved.Linda is far more of a “granola” than I am, putting off writing tasks by cooking, cleaning, gardening, walking her Westies, all of which improves her environment. I’m the other way around — the writing rises up in me and pushes everything else out while dust settles and dishes stack. I should be calling the plumber instead of writing this. Something very bad is going on and I don’t want to know.Reward for both of us comes from living interwoven with the life of the land, both plants and animals, both wild and domestic. Work can be hard, but also fulfilling. Linda has been masterfully resourceful in finding ways to survive so that at an age when most people are retired, she runs “Windbreak House” as a writer’s retreat that comes with consulting informed by a lifetime of interaction as a writer, a speaker, a publisher, a poet, an organizer, a buckskinner — all ways of survival. She participates in the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and other functions on a part of the prairie a bit to the south and east of Montana, a bit north of Wyoming, not quite the Middle West. She’s on good terms of with indigenous people but doesn’t make a fetish of it.Much of what Linda is doing here is revisiting old letters, journals, photos. Her grandmother, mother and stepfather kept journals in the way that ag people do, keeping track of weather and crop cycles and in the process recording their human lives. One visits such records again and again, always finding them a little more revealing, a little more relevant. In the end she conveys them to historical societies, except for a couple of boxes of correspondence which she consigns to the dump, much to the exasperation of another snooper in the past.Much of what attracts others and leavens the heavy thoughts is lyrical passages according to the seasons. Though her homestead backs up to open nature where coyotes and pronghorns trot past the cattle, the front of the house overlooks a highway and housing developments of urban people. The closest she comes to political indignation is outrage over those uncouth squatters. Luckily, her rancher neighbor who runs cattle on her land and her life-partner who has a workshop across the yard, look out for her and agree with her philosophy. They are a little younger.Not that Linda is any kind of a wimp. One of her essays that had quite a long life was about why she carried a gun, horrifying the softie liberals. The one I still reread now and then is about her teaching the homestead feral cats about the mice out in the hay yard. The first time she loaded them into the front-end loader they boomeranged all over the cab, so she could hardly drive. As soon as she pulled down a bale and mice ran out, they got the idea. After that, they would follow the packed trail of the loader out to the haystack without urging.

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