Circle of women :  an anthology of contemporary western women writers /  [electronic resource]  
edited by Kim Barnes and Mary Clearman Blew. 
 - New York :  Penguin Books,  1994. 
 - xiv, 400 p. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/>Sow in the river / Mary C. Blew -- Woodcutting on Lost Mountain / Tess Gallagher -- Secret of cartwheels / Patricia Henley -- Iona Moon / Melanie Rae Thon -- When I was ten, at night ; Luck / Mary Ann Waters -- Just rewards ; Changing / Debra Earling -- From 'Housekeeping' / Marilynne Robinson -- Rules ; Songs were horses I rode ; They keep their story ; For Mary, on the Snake / Ripley Schemm -- Visiting the Hutterites / Irene Wanner -- Scale / Diane Raptosh -- From 'Missing you' / Inez Petersen -- From 'Jailing of Cecilia Capture' / Janet C. Hale -- In the hellgate wind / Madeline DeFrees -- Difference in effects of temperature ; Depending on geographical location ; East or west of the Continental Divide ; A letter / Dennice Scanlon -- It's come to this / Annick Smith -- From 'Jump-off creek' / Molly Gloss -- Bones / Teresa Jordan -- Leaving home ; What comes of winter ; At the Stockman Bar, where the men fall in love and the women just fall / Judy Blunt -- From 'Rain or shine: a family memoir / Cyra McFadden -- Entering Smoot, Wyoming, pop. 239 / Dixie Partridge -- Seasons / Ruth McLaughin -- Cry ; Tracks ; Sawyer's wife / Sandra Alcosser -- Fires / Christina Adam -- In my next life / Pam Houston -- Red Rock ceremonies ; Claiming  lives ; Moving day at the widow Cain's / Anita Endrezze -- Island / Gretel Ehrlich -- Force of one voice ; Legend in a small town / Neidy Messer -- From 'Relative distances' / Victoria Jenkins -- Other side of fire / Leslie Ryan -- Coyote is loping across the water / Mary Golden -- Hunsaker blood / Pauline Mortenson -- How I came West, and why I stayed / Alison Baker -- From 'Rima in the weeds' / Deidre McNamer -- Circle of women ; Calling the coyotes in ; Smell of rain / Kim Barnes -- Clan of one-breasted women / Terry Tempest Williams. 
<br/><br/> An anthology of short stories examining Western myths and traditions through the eyes of women. They usual settings: ranches, saloons, rodeos and the open range. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0140235248 :  $11.95 (Can. $14.99) 9780140235241 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>94010705  
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB95-83859 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--West (U.S.)<br/>Women--West (U.S.)--Literary collections.<br/>American literature--Women authors.<br/>American literature--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>West (U.S.)--Literary collections.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>English literature  By  Women United States 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS561  / .C57 1994 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.8/09287