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The West is big skies, cowboys, poetry, exploration. But the West is also Western hospitality and taking care of one another. The West is tipping your hat, waiting with- out honking at the stoplight. The West, our West, is a place where your word means something, where deals are still made on a handshake, where trade is a form of currency. Our West is eye contact and a smile on a trail or on the street. Our West is taking the time to listen when someone needs to talk, no matter how long they need to talk. Our West is respect, courtesy and kindness. Welcome to the Winter issue of AwA. Welcome to our West.

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Eye Candy – Photography by Jace Romick

JACE ROMICK is as Western as it gets. Raised on a ranch in Steam- boat Springs, Jace began his career as a professional downhill skier and rodeo competitor where he was exposed to the world of sports photography. He swapped skis and spurs for a camera and set about photographing imagery that spoke to his cowboy heart. Never one to settle for the ordinary, Jace taught himself the art of furniture-making which led to hand crafting frames and the abil- ity to combine two artistic passions. Soulful depictions of rodeo, wildlife and landscapes that tell stories of the West are placed in his hand built custom frames and sold through his gallery in down- town Steamboat.

Eye Candy – Photography by Jace Romick

JACE ROMICK is as Western as it gets. Raised on a ranch in Steam- boat Springs, Jace began his career as a professional downhill skier and rodeo competitor where he was exposed to the world of sports photography. He swapped skis and spurs for a camera and set about photographing imagery that spoke to his cowboy heart. Never one to settle for the ordinary, Jace taught himself the art of furniture-making which led to hand crafting frames and the abil- ity to combine two artistic passions. Soulful depictions of rodeo, wildlife and landscapes that tell stories of the West are placed in his hand built custom frames and sold through his gallery in down- town Steamboat.

“In Turkana I can still remember being in the hills at dusk listening to the young herders calling out to each other across the ravines, goat bells tinkling. Magical.”

Writers’ Corner

A HARSHER GLORY

By Polly Holyoke

This land
Where time-blasted rocks
Thrust up from the cracked yellow dirt
Into a parched blue sky,
This land of trees twisted by dry winds
Bark scored with centuries of lines,
Flowing into the nowhere of a sundrenched desert,
It calls me.
Standing by a red cliff,
I look to distant blue mesas,
To the road before me rippling with heat
Until through the hot waves
And time
I see Coronado still traveling the long plain
Searching for the lost cities of Quivera
Greed and god-driven alike behind him.
The sun burns white
On their helmets and their spurs
And dances on the dark sweat
Of the stumbling horses.
Silently they pass into the desert,
Leaving a slow cloud of yellow dust
To sift through mesquite leaves
And settle on sharp yucca stems.
I know in my dreams
I will stand here by the cliff
When the sun turns the mesas
Blood red with its setting
Just as Coronado still journeys
This sun-seared land,

One Family: Three Legacies

There are a few names that stand out when thinking about the development of Steamboat Springs: James Crawford, first permanent white settler; Buddy Werner, Olympic athlete; Jim Temple, who helped develop what is today called Mt. Werner. Yet there is one family who shaped three of the major industries that define Northwest Colorado, who don’t often get the credit they de- serve: the Perry family.

Writers’ Corner

by Polly Holyoke

This land

Where time blasted rocks

Thrust up from cracked yellow dirt

Into a parched blue sky,

This land of trees twisted by dry winds

Bark scored with centuries of lines,

Flowing into the nowhere of a sundrenched desert,

It calls to me.

Feature

ONE FAMILY: THREE LEGACIES

How the Perry family shaped the west.

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