As I finished a short essay on the California-Nevada high desert – with a nod to the Paiute cowboy with whom I once worked cattle there — I came across a possible market: the Watershed Review at the California State University at Chico, 200 miles north of our ranch. Its editors wrote that they are “on lands that were originally occupied by the first people of this area, the Mechoopda, and we recognize their distinctive spiritual relationship with this land. . . .”
I have seldom been so sure that the editors of a magazine would like what I wrote. I was right: My Among the Bristlecones is out today. Read it ==>at Watershed Review