Ranch Communications | Deep West Video

Ranch Communications premiered in our 2005 online exhibition Back at the Ranch: An Artful Life and was made possible through the generous support of Dick Burton, the R. Harold Burton Foundation, and the Dick Burton Foundation.

Ins and Outs of Ranching / 6:28

A tour of ranch gates and fences, and their personalities.
Susan and Peter Church. 2004

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Searching for Heroes - A Tribute to Leroy Horn / 11:18

A tribute to a revered horseman. Linda Bunch. 2003

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A Beautiful Pair / 4:00

A tribute to Oregon rancher and cowboy Merlin Rupp by his daughter. Ronda Van Norman. 2003

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Sometimes on the Right Kind of Morning / 6:24

A story about the challenge of focusing on small things amid the vastness of ranch country. Carolyn and Linda Dufurrena. 2004

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Visit Linda and Carolyn through their online journals.

What is a Leppy? / 5:48

A story about ranch calves abandoned by their mothers. Peter, Susan, Andrew, and James Church. 2003

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A Letter from Home / 11:29

A letter from a ranch mother to her son serving a tour of duty in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division. Produced in 2003, Robin Boies says “when your kid goes off to war and might die, you face your own mortality as well as theirs, and it puts things into perspective.”