| Item Description: | Introduction: Why study sheep, shepherds and carved aspen trees? -- 1st sheepscape: Searching for sheepscapes and finding stock driveways, White River National Forest -- Sheep across the Southwest -- 2nd sheepscape: Buckles Lake, counting corrals and V-Rock, San Juan National Forest -- The beginning of Colorado's cattle and sheep wars, 1880-1905 -- 3rd sheepscape: Elkhorn Stock Driveway, Routt and Medicine Bow National Forests -- The US Forest Service in Colorado, a sheep army, and the fight over government grass, 1905-1920 -- 4th sheepscape: Going to the mountain, Glade Park & Pinon Mesa -- Basque & Greek sheepmen, the Taylor Grazing Act, and end of the range wars, 1920-1934 -- 5th sheepscape: Dead mule on a cabin porch, Lone Mesa State Park and a sacred Penitente Calvario -- Hispano herders, drought, and the Great Depression, 1934-1941 -- 6th sheepscape: Lone Cone and Beaver Park, Uncompahgre National Forest -- Sheepherding after WWII: from canyonlands to wilderness, 1945-1970 -- 7th sheepscape: Sheepshed art in South Park -- Recreation and restoration: Hikers, guardian dogs & bighorns, 1970 to the present -- 8th sheepscape: Cairns in the Stinking Desert & on the Horsethief Trail -- The future of Colorado's high country: Ailing aspens, Peruvian herders, and ethnic lamb -- 9th sheepscape: Understanding herders' lives -- Old West, new West, next West: sheep, ski areas, wolves, and endangered species. |
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