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Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West
Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West
Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West
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A “blessedly unromantic” portrait of real women’s lives in the contemporary American West (Kathleen Norris).
 
This wide-ranging collection of essays and poetry reveals the day-to-day lives and experiences of a diverse collection of women in the western United States, from Buddhists in Nebraska to Hutterites in South Dakota to “rodeo moms.” A woman chooses horse work over housework; neighbors pull together to fight a raging wildfire; a woman rides a donkey across Colorado to raise money after the tragedy at Columbine. Women recall harmony found at a drugstore, at a powwow, in a sewing circle. Lively, heartfelt, urgent, enduring, Crazy Woman Creek celebrates community—connections built or strengthened by women that unveil a new West.
 
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Release dateMay 18, 2004
ISBN9780547347134
Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West

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