This website consists of photographs and backroad episodes of Robert and Maggie McCune's adventures through Ranch Country of the American West. The photo gallery itself is made up of carefully selected images of fine-art quality. "My main objective is to find photo subjects that, with their surrounding environment, convey a sense of the hard work and remote isolation of ranch life. Of endurance and vast distances, with a barn and corrals, or a solitary windmill, or a long ago abandoned ranch house as the focal point.
Maggie and I travel the back roads in an Econoline 150 work van that has been converted somewhat, to living conditions: an extended top, bunks, fridge, etc. Please see my Blog of November 4, 2011, for more information about this website. Maggie and I invite you to return now and then, for new photos and Backroad Adventures through Ranch Country U.S.A."
By clicking on The Books in the left-hand menu column, you'll find a description of Robert’s GUARDIANS OF THE LAND, an account of the seven and a half months he and Maggie spent visiting sixteen ranches in eleven states while living in the converted Ford Econoline work van they call SHADOW CATCHER. 35,500 words and 42 photographs. A second book is a memoir of the eight months Robert served in Korea during the early phases of that war; THE HILLS AROUND US: KOREA 1950-1951. 31,000 words. These books can be purchased in hard copy or E-book, or you may read them on-line at no cost by going to The Books and clicking on Start Reading Here. Chapters are being inserted one at a time, on pretty much a monthly basis.
Many of you on-line readers already know this, but text in a website can be made larger simply by going to VIEW in your Desk Top Tool Bar, and then Zooming in a couple of times.
Note, November 10, 2011. I’ve greatly reduced the photo prices. This prolonged steep drop in the economy has put a heck-of-a restraint on the sales of art work, particularly photos. If you've had a particular interest in any of my photos, you should take another look at these new prices.
