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Spike van cleve biography

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        1. Spike Van Cleve was a natural born storyteller who was educated at Harvard but received his "learning" on the Montana range riding his horses and doing an.
        2. A continuation of the autobiography of the life and times of Spike Van Cleve born 7 Nov in Sweet Grass County, Montana from to his death in
        3. Sweet Grass County lost one of its most renowned citizens when Paul Ledyard Van Cleve III, better known as Spike, age 69, died at his ranch home.
        4. Spike Van Cleve was born in on the family ranch established by his grandfather in After attending Harvard University, he returned to Montana to begin.

          5. A continuation of the autobiography of the life and times of Spike Van Cleve born 7 Nov in Sweet Grass County, Montana from to his death in...

          She was raised on a ranch in the lee of the Crazy Mountains, where in a good year, the grass grows as high as a horse’s belly.

          Ranching families dwelled there precariously in a world both beautiful and treacherous, only a drought or late spring blizzard away from ruin.

          But even after Barbara Van Cleve left to teach college English in Chicago, the land called to her, and she returned each summer to Montana to train horses and ride the high country.

          Van Cleve’s love of the West suffuses her new book of photographs, “Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women,” which documents the hardships and joys of ranching life as women know it.

          The handsome black-and-white images, photographed by Van Cleve mostly between 1986 and 1988, portray women on horseback roping steers, in kitchens cooking and taking time out to nurse their babies.

          Van Cleve visited ranches from the mountain foothills of Idaho and Montana to the hot plains of southern New Mexico.

          She brought her own saddl