num_pages: 256
description: In this elegant and illuminating true story, Diana Allen Kouris tells of growing up on the historic Browns Park Livestock Ranch, where in the 1800s Butch Cassidy found sanctuary, and nearly a century later her family hosted Robert Redford as he retraced the Outlaw Trail. In her description of the joys and tragedies of ranch and family life, she captures the human spirit as beautiful, dynamic, and vital as the land. Ironically, it is the uniqueness and beauty of the land that eventually brings change and hastens the end of the lifestyle generations of her family knew. But because she rode on the edge of a vanishing era and brings it vigorously to life, it will remain in her heart--and in ours
language: English
title: Riding the Edge of an Era: Growing Up Cowboy on the Outlaw Trail
titlecomplete: Riding the Edge of an Era: Growing Up Cowboy on the Outlaw Trail
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 28
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: WILLA Literary Award
category: Creative Nonfiction (Finalist)
publisher: High Plains Pr