diff --git a/recipes/high_country_news.recipe b/recipes/high_country_news.recipe
index 7a9d84aad6..15db60a957 100644
--- a/recipes/high_country_news.recipe
+++ b/recipes/high_country_news.recipe
@@ -8,21 +8,27 @@ Fetch High Country News
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 class HighCountryNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
 
-    title = u'High Country News'
-    description = u'News from the American West'
-    __author__ = 'Armin Geller' # 2012-01-28
-    publisher = 'High Country News'
-    timefmt  = ' [%a, %d %b %Y]'
-    language = 'en'
-    encoding = 'UTF-8'
+    title                 = u'High Country News'
+    description           = u'News from the American West'
+    __author__            = 'Armin Geller' # 2012-01-31
+    publisher             = 'High Country News'
+    timefmt               = ' [%a, %d %b %Y]'
+    language              = 'en-Us'
+    encoding              = 'UTF-8'
     publication_type      = 'newspaper'
     oldest_article        = 7
     max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    auto_cleanup = True
-    remove_javascript = True
+    no_stylesheets        = True
+    auto_cleanup          = True
+    remove_javascript     = True
     use_embedded_content  = False
+    masthead_url          = 'http://www.hcn.org/logo.jpg' # 2012-01-31 AGe add
+    cover_source          = 'http://www.hcn.org'          # 2012-01-31 AGe add
 
+    def get_cover_url(self):                              # 2012-01-31 AGe add
+       cover_source_soup = self.index_to_soup(self.cover_source)
+       preview_image_div = cover_source_soup.find(attrs={'class':' portaltype-Plone Site content--hcn template-homepage_view'})
+       return preview_image_div.div.img['src']
 
     feeds = [
               (u'Most recent', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/hcn/most-recent'),