Women and community-building in an energy boomtown

The mountains are home? Maybe, for a few of the world’s remaining indigenous peoples clinging to ancestral traditions against the lure of factory jobs; for the owners of the factories who purchase million-dollar ranches and summer homes in search of a more romantic image for themselves. The rest of us live by the creeks, on the well-watered and convenient flatlands and valleys, where we may contemplate mountains from afar. Yet sometimes the remoteness of the mountains, as well as the deserts and oceans, becomes more than a place for transcending the mundane; it becomes an economic necessity..