RIDING THE HIGHER RANGE
The Story of Colorado's Coleman Ranch
and Coleman Natural Beef

By Stephen M. Voynick

THE 124-YEAR-OLD COLEMAN RANCH sprawls across some 250,000 private and public acres at the northern end of Colorado's beautiful San Luis Valley.  To save the ranch from foreclosure in 1980, fourth-generation ranchers Mel and Polly Coleman created the concept of "natural" beef from cattle raised without antibiotics or growth-promoting hormones. Today, the ranch is prospering again and Coleman Natural Beef has evolved into an international marketing corporation. Riding the Higher Range tells how the Coleman Ranch earned a niche in western history, not only for its longevity and rich heritage, but also for its leadership role in furthering rangeland sustainability and humane treatment of animals, and in pioneering new directions for beef production for the twenty-first century.

"A solid tale of western ranching and beef production, past and present.  Like Coleman Natural Beef, Voynick's account is well done and rare!"
- PATRICIA NELSON LIMERICK
Professor of History,
University of Colorado
Chair of the Board,
Center of the American West

272 pages, 6x9, soft cover
9 color photographs
66 b&w photographs
maps, illustrations & index

ISBN 0-9662331-0-7
published 1998
$18.00 (price does not include applicable taxes or shipping & handling charges)

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Coleman Natural Products, Inc. is neither the author nor a publisher or distributor of this publication. Coleman hereby disclaims any responsibility for the information set forth in this book. The points of view expressed in "Riding the Higher Range" are those of the author.