Told from the unique perspective of a woman, mother, environmentalist, and rancher who cowboys across the pages, THE LAST COWS conveys the joys, challenges, heartbreaks, and qualms of contemporary ranching in the American West. In this literary rendering, the author tells of her ranching past, the history of her beloved cows, and her days in the wild. Joy Harjo says of THE LAST COWS: It's "an ecological journey of fine attunement to the land...[with] a penetrating spiritual awareness."