Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush WestLinda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis 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 | |