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Crazy Woman Creek Women Rewrite the American West

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ISBN-10: 0618249338

ISBN-13: 9780618249336

Edition: 2004

Authors: Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis

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Crazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole. Long troubled by the misguided images of skinny cowgirls on prancing palominos, the editors embarked on a mission to set the record straight. They wanted these western women to reveal the realities of their lives in their own words. In Crazy Woman Creek, 153 women west of the Mississippi write of the ways they shape and sustain their communities. Whether these groups are organized, imposed, or spontaneous, this collection shows that where women gather, anything is possible. Readers will encounter Buddhists in Nebraska, Hutterites in South Dakota, rodeo moms rather…    
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Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Linda M. Hasselstrom received her bachelor's degree in English and journalism from the University of South Dakota in 1965 and her master's degree from the University of Missouri in 1969. She then taught communications at Black Hills State College in Spearfish, S.D. She also taught poetry and fiction as a writer-in-schools for the South Dakota Arts Council. An accomplished author and poet, Hasselstrom founded Lame Johnny Press with the goal of publishing the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction works of writers in the Great Plains states. The press published 23 books before it closed down in 1985. Hasselstrom was named "Author of the Year" by the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 1989. Some of her…    

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.

Introduction: Beyond Crazy Woman Creek
Women Driving Pickups
Banana Bread and Coffee
The Shearing
Object of Affection
At the Line Dance Cafe
Posse to the Rescue
Superior Laundry, Sheridan, Wyoming
Right Place, Wrong Time
Casserole Culture in Highlands Ranch
Patchwork for Baby
Wonderbra Soldiers
Picking Peaches
Run Toward Suffering
Watch the Big House Burn
Room for a Small House
The Hippie Central Library Fest
Rhino Rump, Chicken Palace, and Kindness
Waiting to Dance
Where the River Bends
Far-Flung Neighbors
I Suppose It Was the Food
Bound
Soakers Unite
No One Baked Cookies
Boomtown, Babies, and Strawberry Pie
No Treasure in Bismarck
Grab Your Shawls, Girls!
Warm Hearts, Cold Reality
Standing in Line at Aldrich's Grocery
A Light Shawl on a Cool Night
Echoes on the Wind
Cliff Dwellings: Mesa Verde
Path to a Small World
Simply, Soul Soup
After Moving Away from 610
Have Cattle, Will Travel
Women of the Journal Star
Valley Essential: Gladys Smith
Old Women's Domain
Mine Shack Memories
Well--You Told Me To
Surviving at Great Cost
From Canton to Spearfish
The Brown Sofa
Feeding the Spirit
At the Greasy Spoon
Vagina Dialogues on the Road Trip
Shelter for Each Other
Champagne Toast at Midnight
The Logging Bee
Wood Ash on the Wind
Nevada Firestorm
Women in Pickups
Gifts from Our Hands and Hearts
To Dance with Grace
Tupperware Therapy
Banding Together in San Francisco
Concert of Energy
Hallelujah and a Show of Hands
Writing into the Storm
Too Busy to Be Church Ladies
How Do I Thank ...?
We Four
A Haunting Experience
Rejuvenating the Clearfield Hall and Me
The Wolf Pack in the School District
The Non-Musicals Sing Their Last Song
Fifty Years of Potluck
The Woman Who Didn't Fit In
Wednesdays at Walgreens
A Couple of Nights Before Christmas
Why We Still Sing When Other Choirs Dissolved
Savoring the Circle
Perching
Hallelujah! Faith Circle!
Bingo Babes
I'm Afraid I Can't Attend the Next Meeting
Concerning My Hutterite Cousins
Straightforward and Unafraid
The Spite and Malice Sewing Circle
A Square of Winter Light
Speak, Throw Up, or Die
What It Took
You Always Start with a Baptism
The Brotherhood of Railroad Workers
Our Ladies of the Farm
Convergence of Horse-Crazy Women
Hook and Turn
Cindergals Never Looked Back
The Hobo Mark Swooshed
Endurance in Harmony
The Caring Cleveland Club
A Good Thing to Do
The Circle Dance
"I Bring You the Gift of My Dying"
The Ramah Farmers' Market
Forecasting the Future of Food
Down Gravel Roads
Woman Sculpted of Stones
Making Room for Jesus and Buddha
What I Hate Most About You
Pickin' Chickens
Watch Where You Step
Comments from the Crow's-Nest
Rodeo Moms
When the World Split
Tuesday Tea
Choir Practice at the Bongo Lounge
Popcorn in the ER
Old Woman with a Mind
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Funeral Meats
Cowgirl Up, Cupcakes
Weeders, All
The Communion of Saints
Desert Filament
The Far Side of Maple Street
Quilting a Dissertation
The Living, the Warm
The Elegance of White Things
Celebrating Mass in a Nightgown
In a Time of War
Stitching My Life Project
I Like It That Way
Leaving Sad Town
Silent Renewal
More Alike Than Different
Ongoing Sustenance
Tapestry Woven of Stories
Your Sister's Keeper
Ghost Dance II
Feeling North Dakota and Looking California
Things I Would Not Miss
Stretching Friendship
Alone, Not Lonely
Tortilla Round
Slot Mamas
Crone Circle: Grandmothers Giving Wisdom
United Methodist Fellowship
Beadwork
Colorado Ritual
Cowgirl Up, Cupcakes
Re-entry: Homeward Bound
Liesel, You're a Good Christian
Sonnet for My Grandchild
Never Silent Again
The Drumbeat Continues
Checkup, Checkout
Plant Sale Grows Roots
One Panel of a Quilt
One Word at a Time
Dealing Uno and Life
Anaconda Copper Dreams
Where They Know My Name
La Mujer y Su Cultura
On Watermelon and Stout Roads
A World Apart
Belongings
AfterWord
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Credits