The 1930s and '40s were a period of great change in the ranching West. The introduction of the automobile, the growing availability of electricity, the radio, the telephone, and other technology drastically transformed the lives and work of ranching people. Yet the images of the ranching men, women, and children and the landscapes, they inhabited are timeless. Featuring photographs by such renowned documentarians as Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, and others, this book captures moments in the ranching culture in Western states during the Great Depression and in the years leading up to World War II. Book jacket.