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Cowgirls: 100 Years of Writing the Range »

Authors: Thelma Poirier
ISBN-13: 9780889951686, ISBN-10: 0889951683
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Thelma Poirier

Thelma Poirier grew up on a ranch in southern Saskatchewan. She has written two poetry books, Double Vision and Grasslands, and has traveled to and organized many cowboy poetry gatherings, all the while reading and collecting writing by women of the western range.

Book Synopsis

For more than a century, cowgirls have earned their place on the western frontier.

	Old Corrals and New Ranges	13
	American Frontiers
	The Old Ranch Mother	22
	Scalawag	25
	Bucking Bronco	32
	Love Finds Its Hour	33
	Snow: An Adventure of the Woman Homesteader	41
	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	48
	The "Cowgirl" in Montana	65
	Please Excuse the Pants	67
	The Canadian North-West
	A Lady and Her Ranch	75
	A Pioneer Gentlewoman	80
	A Letter From Mary	86
	From Mary's Window	89
	A Sheep Herder's Bride	91
	Lost Child Creek	97
	Log Cabin and We Two	100
	High River Cook Book	110
	Wedding on Rock Creek	112
	The Day I Fell in the Well	114
	Holding Hands	116
	Bar U Store House	117
	A Common Range: The American and Canadian West
	Things We Learned from Our Fathers	120
	A Part of this Land	122
	An Ordinary Morning	124
	Branding	128
	Planely Speaking	131
	A Life of Our Own	142
	Semi-Retired	148
	Riding for the Heart Brand	150
	Three Wire Fences	151
	Choosing the Boneyard	152
	Delores	157
	Making Bread	158
	Alberta's Story	159
	Moonlight Ride	169
	Effie's Garden	171
	Sewing Circle	174
	The Barren Mare	175
	The Blue Filly	176
	From a Sheepherder's Notebook: Three Days	178
	Somebody	184
	Foreclosure	186
	Breaking Horses	188
	Cow-Less	198
	Let Life	199
	Bossy's Profits	200
	To Everything A Season	202
	What I'd Do in Paris	207
	Lesson # 1	208
	Home Ranch Cattle Drive: Fall 1981	209
	Figure Eights	213
	What Shock Heard	215
	Didsbury Auction	228
	Rodeo and Other Arenas
	Mrs. Weadick and I	231
	Fannie Sperry	237
	Berry Me Not	239
	A Horse Beneath Me ... Sometimes	241
	Greenough Girls	246
	Coyote Bitch	249
	A Rodeo Man	250
	A Horse Named Nancy	252
	I'm in the Money	262
	Roper's Wife's Lament	264
	Twisted Heart	266
	Just Call Me Cactus Blossom	278
	Half-Past Eight	280