Las Animas - Bent County Library District

A woman with a talent for numbers, Alexandra Scott wanted to escape the rat race and go someplace where the men outnumber the women. Trading in her Wall Street job and fancy condo for a rundown cabin in the woods. She's now Alaskan Wilderness Woman. It isn't long before she finds exactly what she's looking for: one sexy pilot named Michael Casey. But this confirmed bachelor has no intentions of getting caught in any woman's crosshairs -- especially...

Old Fences, New Neighbors is a chronicle of how one small, rural community is dealing with the changes currently sweeping the West. It is also the firsthand perspective of a working rancher. Decker, himself once an outsider in Ouray County, left a career as a professor of history and bought a ranch in the area in 1974. Decker gives us a hard, realistic look at his own experience with ranching: the elaborate machinations of a cattle drive, the struggle...