Moving to South Hand County, in central South Dakota, in 1964 after husband Jack declared his intention to become a first-generation rancher by purchasing land there (the high-interest loan way), I felt debt ridden and adrift. Thankfully, I soon learned that South Hand was not in the middle of nowhere, but in the middle of someplace special, surrounded by realistically honest and reliable neighbors.
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Two cold cowboys herd their Hereford cattle across a ditch full of snow in this photo from the 1960s.
