an anthology of contemporary western women writers /
edited by Kim Barnes and Mary Clearman Blew.
Red River books ed.
Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
2001.
xiv, 414 pages ;
21 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
The sow in the river / Mary Clearman Blew -- Woodcutting on lost mountain / Tess Gallagher -- The secret of cartwheels / Patricia Henley -- Iona moon / Melanie Rae Thon -- When I was then, at night ; Luck / Mary Ann Waters -- The just rewards ; Changing / Debra Earling -- From Housekeeping / Marilynne Robinson -- Rules ; Songs were horses I rode ; They keep their story ; For Mary, on the snake / Ripley Schemm -- Visiting the Hutterites / Irene Wanner -- Scale / Diane Raptosh -- From Missing you / Inez Petersen -- From The jailing of Cecelia capture / Janet Campbell Hale -- In the hellgate wind / Madeline DeFrees -- The difference in effects of temperature depending on geographical location East or West of the continental divide: a letter / Dennice Scanlon -- It's come to this / Annick Smith -- From The jump-off creek / Molly Gloss -- Bones / Teresa Jordan -- Leaving home ; What comes of winter ; At the Stockman bar, where the men fall in love, and the women just fall / Judy Blunt -- From Rain or shine: A family memoir / Cyra McFadden -- Entering smoot, Wyoming pop. 239 / Dixie Partridge -- Seasons / Ruth McLaughlin --Cry ; Tracks ; The Sawyer's wife / Sandra Alcosser -- Fires / Christina Adam -- In my next life / Pam Houston -- Red rock ceremonies ; Claiming lives ; Moving day at the wdow cain's / Anita Endrezze -- Island / Gretel Ehrlich -- The force of once voice ; Legend in a small town / Neidy Messer -- From relative distances / Victoria Jenkins -- The other side of fire / Leslie Ryan -- A coyote is loping across the water / Mary Golden -- The hunsaker blood / Pauline Mortenson -- How I came west, and why I stayed / Alison Baker -- From Rima in the weeds / Deirdre McNamer -- Cirlce of women ; Calling the coyotes in ; The smell of rain / Kim Barnes -- The clan of one-breasted women / Terry Tempest Williams -- Breathing the snake / Claire Davis.