Title: Leaning into the wind : women write from the heart of the West /
Authors: Hasselstrom, Linda M.; Collier, Gaydell M.; Curtis, Nancy, 1947-
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Women pioneers West (U.S.) Biography Anecdotes.; Rural women West (U.S.) Biography Anecdotes.; Women ranchers West (U.S.) Biography Anecdotes.; Farm life West (U.S.) Anecdotes.; Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Anecdotes; West (U.S.) Biography Anecdotes.
Abstract: What kind of woman flourishes on the High Plains, that harsh but beautiful expanse of prairie stretching roughly from the Rockies to the Mississippi River? What some people may picture as a wasteland is, in fact, home to all the women in this book: sheep and cattle ranchers, grassland farmers, rural teachers and mail carriers, wilderness rangers - ordinary women who posses extraordinary grit. In the true stories, poems, and reflections in Leaning into the Wind these.