![]() Hard work and hardships at Yamsi coexist with a dedication to principles of conservation and sound ecology. Informed by a sense of responsibility toward those who lived and worked on the land before him - including the Klamath Indians who first called the land home - and those who might one day follow him, Hyde struggles to run a family-owned cattle business in an age of corporate agriculture. Hyde's journal records a year on the ranch as the seasons change and the ranch work changes with them. ![]() ![]() What begins as a journal to show his banker how a cattle ranch operates, and why few ranches show a profit, becomes an opportunity to reveal "a personal glimpse of a family in action, of a rancher who is maybe a little different, whose head is filled with nature as well as cows, whose heart runs soft to the beauties of the land about him." Yamsi, a 6000-acre working cattle ranch at the headwaters of the Williamson River in Oregon's Klamath Basin is the setting for Dayton Hyde's lively meditation on what it means to be a rancher in the West in the latter half of the 20th century. ![]()
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