"Girls can be cowboys too! is a 'Chicken Soup' collection of diverse, uplifting, educational and just plain fun stories about women, their animals and the land. All but two are west of the Mississippi River and only a handful are real "Cowboys." One of my gals told me that real ranch women do not like the word "Cowgirls" as that imparts the thoughts of bling, fancy boots and prissy stuff. These gals are the real deal and work as hard as any man doing...

Narratives of seven individuals engaged in ranching in Sublette County, Wyoming were qualitatively analyzed to examine how these ranchers express human-to-nature relationships, what those relationships are, and the values that influence them. Four themes came from the narratives, most notably that the participants conceived human beings as intrinsically part of nature. The term "the land" is used to express this holistic worldview. Work, family, and...