| Rightful Place Contributor(s): Auker, Amy Hale (Author), Hasselstrom, Linda M. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0896728870 ISBN-13: 9780896728875 Publisher: Texas Tech University Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Voice in the American West |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6.02" W x 8.21" (0.47 lbs) 156 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the Texas panhandle to the mountains of Arizona, Amy Auker has lived the cowboy life--as wife, as mother, as cook, as ranch hand, as writer. In fine-grained detail she captures the prairie light, the traffic on small farm-to-market roads, the vacant stillness of shipping pens when fall works are over. But she also captures the unmistakable westernness of the people and animals around her: the son who must get back on the horse, the husband who gives great gifts, the horses whose names and temperaments are as recognizable as family. Auker understands those who live in the sway of nature's moods far off the main roads, and she commends them to us in luminous prose backlit by her own hard-earned experience. |