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The Pulitzer Prize-nominated book in paperback for the first time! From a haunting story of the night Billy the Kid died to a dramatic account of a breathtaking horse race, including two stories that won the prestigious Spur Award, here is a collection that reveals the passion and fortitude of its characters, and also the power of a wonderful writer. "Highly recommended!"--"Booklist.

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Alex O'Keefe had a dream of setting up an cattle empire in the New Mexico Territory. His enthusiastic wife, Joanna, sold the family belongings and boarded a train to meet him in the Territory, but when she arrived she found Alex dead, murdered by an unknown killer. Joanna would do whatever she had to--even it if meant taking the cattle on a brutal overland trail drive to San Diego.

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Poems celebrating the legacy of early southwest explorer, Jesuit missionary, horseman, philosopher Father Kino by award-winning author Jane Candia Coleman.

A first collection of 14 stories that peoples a southwestern landscape with female survivors of one kind of abuse or another. At her best, Coleman can evoke the haunted landscape and the domestic discord of a Frostian dramatic poem or the passionate bitterness of a Lawrentian short story. "Sunflower" concerns a female narrator and her husband Clay, who have found a weary acceptance of each other after her passionate youth and catastrophic trys...

Jane Candia Coleman's first book of poetry, No Roof But Sky, was received with enthusiasm by critics and readers alike.The Red Drum, winner of a 1994 Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, expands on that rich tradition. Here are poems that are eloquent, earthy, and exact in their insight into the unsentimental reality of the American West.

Jane Coleman absorbed the American West -- the startlingly rich, resonant world of Belle Starr, Geronimo, Chicken Jo, Archie and Edith, Sacajawea, the Jesus wagon, mountains, trails, plains, and mesas -- and distilled it into the fine, vibrant poetry of No Roof But Sky. Coleman is a storyteller, a historian, and a poet.

This collection of stories by award-winning writer Jane Candia Coleman (No Roof But Sky, Stories from Mesa Country) is about women coming of age. In each one, the protagonist discovers facets, truths about herself and the world that she has not known - finds places in herself where she has never been. "It's long past time for women to explain themselves in fiction", Coleman writes, "particularly literary fiction, to write about the world and t...

A first collection of 14 stories that peoples a southwestern landscape with female survivors of one kind of abuse or another. At her best, Coleman can evoke the haunted landscape and the domestic discord of a Frostian dramatic poem or the passionate bitterness of a Lawrentian short story. "Sunflower" concerns a female narrator and her husband Clay, who have found a weary acceptance of each other after her passionate youth and catastrophic trys...