About the Author:
ANDREW GULLIFORD is professor of history and environmental studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and the author of Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology and Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions. He is a frequent contributor to “Writers on the Range” of High Country News and Utah Adventure Journal, and he resides in Durango.
Review:
“Andy Gulliford, an outdoors-man and nature guide as well as a crackerjack historian, covers herein far more than his furry title suggests.” —Thomas J. Noel author of Colorado: A Historical Atlas (Thomas J. Noel)
“Long neglected in the literature of the American West, sheep and shepherding are finally given their just due in this well-told and beautifully photographed story. Andrew Gulliford takes the reader into Colorado’s high, lonely meadows where this ethnically diverse group of shepherds plied their trade. The reader gains a new appreciation for this foundational industry of Colorado and the West.” —Steven C. Schulte, author of As Precious as Blood: The Western Slope in Colorado’s Water Wars, 1900–1970 (Steven C. Schulte)
“We have here a writer truly in love with his subject, happily wandering in the blazing aspen forest, where he meets sheepherders. We all love the romantic view of the solitary sheepherder watching the night sky by the camp fire, while his dog watches the sheep.” —Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe author of Speaking Through the Aspens: Basque Tree Carvings in Nevada and California
(Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe)
“This book is both a touchstone for the truth about the domestic sheep industry and also a "ewelogy" for a dying way of life. It casts an appreciative eye on the tree carvings that grace the high country. And it explains the economics and ecology that have left a legacy of "tin roof watersheds" to a thirsty, urbanizing West.” Tom Wolf, author of Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains and Arthur Carhart: Wilderness Prophet
(Tom Wolf)
“The Woolly West is a fascinating study about a neglected part of American history. Gulliford captures something forgotten yet important to the heritage of the West.”—Galveston County Daily News (Galveston County Daily News)
“Gulliford reclaims a forgotten regional heritage, providing important context on public lands, grazing, conservation, and federal management. . . This book is essential reading to anyone interested in public land issues in the West.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly (Southwestern Historical Quarterly)
“The Woolly West does an outstanding job at both celebrating the history of the sheep industry as well as promoting the reclamation of its rightful place in the history of the American West and the settlement of the American frontier.”—Nebraska History (Nebraska History)
“an engaging analysis that offers a deeper understanding of the long-neglected historical legacy of sheepherding in the American West. Its publication is an important and welcome addition to the field of environmental history.”—Environmental History (Environmental History)
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