Gerda Hyde
of documenting rugged individuals who might otherwise
remain invisible, namely forty-nine women who have
lived their often solitary lives as ranchers: "ranchers and
cowgirls…spend hours, if not days and years, often alone
or nearly alone, working with purpose and passion on their
vast terrain", writes Executive Director of the Schnitzer
Museum Jill Hartz in a short essay entitled "From the Range
to the Page".
There are taboos broken in this book and in Lanker's opus.
Not only are the women portrayed—in a variety of traditional
media, including oil, egg tempera, pastel, charcoal, pencil,
drypoint engraving and watercolor—doing man's work,
they are making unfashionable sacrifices, living out as their
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