"Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women" by Barbara Van Cleve © Barbara Van Cleve All rights reserved. 172 Pages Soft Cover Barbara Van Cleve's heritage is rich with family history and firsthand experience. Her family's ranch, the Lasy K Bar, was founded in 1880 on the east slopes of the Crazy Mountains near Melville, Montana. Her father, Spike Van Cleve, was a unique combination of writer,poet, rancher, and expert horseman. Her Montana is the lifetime of knowing the hard work of ranching beneath the spectacular slopes of the Crazy Mountains. Although she photographs landscapes, portraits, and documentary subjects, it is her photography of the ranching West that has earned her national reputation. She is collected internationally as well. Barbara Van Cleve is the author, with cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski, of Roughstock Sonnets. In 1995 she was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. In 1996, "Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women," a major traveling exhibition, opened in Oklahoma City at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.