Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush West

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Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 7, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 336 pages

The grassroots publishing sensation continues with WOVEN ON THE WIND, the second volume of women's writing from the heart of the American West compiled by the editors and ranchers Linda Hasselstrom, Nancy Curtis, and Gaydell Collier. They called on women in sixteen states and provinces to write about their friendships with other women in the West, a subject that they discovered has all too often been overlooked or underplayed. The result is WOVEN ON THE WIND, a unique and exhilarating collection, "a beautiful, intricate mosaic of women as mothers as well as friends" (Fencepost). In a region where time and space are large and solitude is a fact of life, these women tell of the beauties, ironies, rigors, heartbreak, and humor of life and how it is uniquely enriched by friendships past and present. The voices in this volume -- unsentimental, unflinching, and utterly unforgettable -- take readers into the fields, kitchens, barns, and souls of nearly 150 women and reveal a vital part of the real western American story. "Here is the essence of the West -- not the myth, but the truth."

 

Contents

Mary Hadley No Room for Strangers
7
Helen Applegarth McConnell Goldie
13
Stephanie Pershing Buehler Sisters
19
Stephanie Painter Trinity
26
Cheryl Anderson Wright Homemade Noodles
33
Norma Nelson Duppler Secret Sin
35
Lorrie Mydland Beverly
48
Robin Littlefield The Art of Living the Moment
61
Pearle Henriksen Schultz Barbed Wire and Robert Frost
176
Cleo Cantlon The Heart Knows
183
Rian Connors Full Monty
190
Lora K Reiter She Was Writing
203
Lyn DeNaeyer Resurrections
209
Virginia Bennett Tapestry of Knots
216
Patricia Frolander Sisterhood
222
Darcy Acord Dear Ann
223

Dawn Senior Wyoming Mother
75
Dianna Torson Joan
88
Colette Koko Knutson Gjermundson Friends Because
110
Laurie Wagner Buyer There Were No Women
119
Karen Obrigewitch Who Else?
127
Page Lambert Backbeat
134
Bernie Koller Lessons Learned by Hand
140
Lois Hart Muskrat Ramble
146
Tina Welling Passage
152
B J Buckley The Woman Listening on the Party Line
158
Vee Hageman Majesty
166
Donna Britton Harvey Dont Step in the Cactus
169
Mary Garrigan The Concubine
231
Thelma Poirier wild roses
239
Mary E Schnell Let the Circle Be Unbroken
245
Bonnie Larson Staiger Cycles
252
Laura Hawkins Grevel Dear Quilting Sisters
258
Hilary Barton Billman How the West Was Won
265
Jane Elkington Wohl Below ZeroDecember
272
Doris Bircham The Waiting
278
Jeanne Rogers Community of Stones
289
Contributors
295
Acknowledgments 311
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LINDA HASSELSTROM is the author of many highly acclaimed books of nonfiction and poetry and the coeditor of Leaning into the Wind and Woven on the Wind. She divides her time between Wyoming and South Dakota. Based in Wyoming, Gaydell Collier is the coauthor of several books on horsemanship.

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