Cowgirls : 100 Years of Writing the Range

by POIRIER THELMA (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780889951686
• ISBN10: 0889951683
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

For more than a century, cowgirls have earned their place on the western frontier.

Table of Contents

Old Corrals and New Ranges	p. 13
American Frontiers
The Old Ranch Mother	p. 22
Scalawag	p. 25
Bucking Bronco	p. 32
Love Finds Its Hour	p. 33
Snow: An Adventure of the Woman Homesteader	p. 41
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	p. 48
The "Cowgirl" in Montana	p. 65
Please Excuse the Pants	p. 67
The Canadian North-West
A Lady and Her Ranch	p. 75
A Pioneer Gentlewoman	p. 80
A Letter From Mary	p. 86
From Mary's Window	p. 89
A Sheep Herder's Bride	p. 91
Lost Child Creek	p. 97
Log Cabin and We Two	p. 100
High River Cook Book	p. 110
Wedding on Rock Creek	p. 112
The Day I Fell in the Well	p. 114
Holding Hands	p. 116
Bar U Store House	p. 117
A Common Range: The American and Canadian West
Things We Learned from Our Fathers	p. 120
A Part of this Land	p. 122
An Ordinary Morning	p. 124
Branding	p. 128
Planely Speaking	p. 131
A Life of Our Own	p. 142
Semi-Retired	p. 148
Riding for the Heart Brand	p. 150
Three Wire Fences	p. 151
Choosing the Boneyard	p. 152
Delores	p. 157
Making Bread	p. 158
Alberta's Story	p. 159
Moonlight Ride	p. 169
Effie's Garden	p. 171
Sewing Circle	p. 174
The Barren Mare	p. 175
The Blue Filly	p. 176
From a Sheepherder's Notebook: Three Days	p. 178
Somebody	p. 184
Foreclosure	p. 186
Breaking Horses	p. 188
Cow-Less	p. 198
Let Life	p. 199
Bossy's Profits	p. 200
To Everything A Season	p. 202
What I'd Do in Paris	p. 207
Lesson # 1	p. 208
Home Ranch Cattle Drive: Fall 1981	p. 209
Figure Eights	p. 213
What Shock Heard	p. 215
Didsbury Auction	p. 228
Rodeo and Other Arenas
Mrs. Weadick and I	p. 231
Fannie Sperry	p. 237
Berry Me Not	p. 239
A Horse Beneath Me ... Sometimes	p. 241
Greenough Girls	p. 246
Coyote Bitch	p. 249
A Rodeo Man	p. 250
A Horse Named Nancy	p. 252
I'm in the Money	p. 262
Roper's Wife's Lament	p. 264
Twisted Heart	p. 266
Just Call Me Cactus Blossom	p. 278
Half-Past Eight	p. 280
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