My West
Subtitle: [personal writings on the American West : past, present, & future]
By: by Patricia Nell Warren
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Wildcat Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Beverly Hills, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781889135083
Subjects: Anecdotes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Gregory Hinton; title: Author's introduction; title: A western bio; title: Agriculture:  Gates; Haying at the CK; Subsidies: one American's view; Esperseth: a little-known forage plant; Bobcats as pest controllers; Grasses: those graceful dancers; title: Animals: The gentle being; The Spottie: appaloosas and why people want them; Why do Texas longhorns have long horns?; A gift of pheasants; title: Arts:  Oriental love affair; Jewelry of Heyoehkah Merrifield; Art treasures from an old ranch house; The Métis sash in Charles M. Russell's art; title: Cities:  To live (and not die) in L. A.; A westerner ponders New Orleans; Traveling light; Grandma's garden in Mid-Wilshire; California dreamin' [dreaming] on; title: Cooking: Dream soup; A bounteous meal; Delight and danger of chile [chili] peppers; title: Gender: Two-spirit people, and assumptions about "berdaches"; Calamity Jane:  "that awful girl"; title: History: When research gets real; Liberty is a pagan goddess; Many closet doors; title: Politics: Frontier justice in the nineties; MLK Day in Choteau, MT;Censorship: burning Charlie Russell at the stake; Anatomy of a short sale; title: Sexuality: Girl grassroots; What my mother did when she read my gay novel; A coming-out tale of old-time Montana; Orange County odyssey; "It's my history, too"; title: Spirituality: The right to be spiritual; Eagle feathers of thought; The day the deer told me things; title: Women: Remembering Quarra Grant:  first "First Lady" of Montana Territory; Alice Greenough:  women's rodeo pioneer; Janet Thomson:  racehorse trainer; Pat Quillen: caring for the small wildcats; Earth Thunder: medicine woman working for our planet; title: Zest: Happy 65th Birthday to me; Moments of stillness; Victory gardens, and starting over; title: Patricia Nell Warren novels set in the American West.