Literature of the American West Series
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After Eden
A Novel
After Eden is a provocative novel that examines the meaning of home and homelessness among people who see such issues as more than abstractions. In a story populated by Pomo Indians,...
High Country
A Novel
During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family’s failing Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great packers, Fenton Pardee, legendary in the Montana Rockies for his packing adventures across the Swan Range all the way to the Big Divide. Writing in the tradition of Norman Maclean’s A River Runs through It, Willard Wyman shares techniques of breaking and packing and leading animals into forbidding country, hunting and tracking, and making camp. Wyman brings you so close to the packer’s life you smell the leather, sweat, and oil.
Oh, Give Me a Home
Western Contemplations
Evoking memorable images of the American West, the old cowboy song “Home on the Range” is both nostalgic and eternally appealing. The verses remind us of the sweep of history, while their...
GhostWest
Reflections Past and Present
Our sense of place is permeated by ghosts from the past. In GhostWest, Ann Ronald takes the reader to historical sites where something once happened. Using the metaphor of hauntings,...
Writing Her Own Life
Imogene Welch, Western Rural Schoolteacher
Mary Clearman Blew’s aunt Imogene Welch embodied the hard-working values of depression-era western America. In Writing Her Own Life, Blew builds a narrative around excerpts from the...
Bone Deep in Landscape
Writing, Reading, and Place
Great-granddaughter of homesteaders in north-central Montana, Mary Clearman Blew grew up in one of the last vestiges of the rural frontier. Her girlhood chores--hauling water and rounding up...
After Eden
A Novel
After Eden is a provocative novel that examines the meaning of home and homelessness among people who see such issues as more than abstractions. In a story populated by Pomo Indians,...
High Country
A Novel
During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family’s failing Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great packers, Fenton Pardee, legendary in the Montana Rockies for his packing adventures across the Swan Range all the way to the Big Divide. Writing in the tradition of Norman Maclean’s A River Runs through It, Willard Wyman shares techniques of breaking and packing and leading animals into forbidding country, hunting and tracking, and making camp. Wyman brings you so close to the packer’s life you smell the leather, sweat, and oil.
Oh, Give Me a Home
Western Contemplations
Evoking memorable images of the American West, the old cowboy song “Home on the Range” is both nostalgic and eternally appealing. The verses remind us of the sweep of history, while their...
GhostWest
Reflections Past and Present
Our sense of place is permeated by ghosts from the past. In GhostWest, Ann Ronald takes the reader to historical sites where something once happened. Using the metaphor of hauntings,...
Writing Her Own Life
Imogene Welch, Western Rural Schoolteacher
Mary Clearman Blew’s aunt Imogene Welch embodied the hard-working values of depression-era western America. In Writing Her Own Life, Blew builds a narrative around excerpts from the...
Bone Deep in Landscape
Writing, Reading, and Place
Great-granddaughter of homesteaders in north-central Montana, Mary Clearman Blew grew up in one of the last vestiges of the rural frontier. Her girlhood chores--hauling water and rounding up...