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14 produkter
Jackalope Dreams
Häftad, 2011
283 kr
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The departed men in her life still have plenty to say to Corey. Her father, a legendary rodeo cowboy who punctuated his lifelong pronouncements with a bullet to his head, may be the loudest. But in this story of Montana—a story in which the old West meets the new and tradition has its way with just …
This Is not the Ivy League
A Memoir
Häftad, 2013
232 kr
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Mary Clearman Blew’s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not the Ivy League is her account of …
When Montana and I Were Young
A Frontier Childhood
Av Margaret Bell, Mary Clearman Blew
Häftad, 2003
210 kr
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Lost for almost half a century and never before published, When Montana and I Were Young is a remarkable primary account of a child's life in the early part of the twentieth century. Margaret Bell (1888–1982) was a rancher and horse breaker whose memoir tells the story of a frontier childhood on …
All but the Waltz
A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family
Häftad, 2001
271 kr
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In language reminiscent of the wild beauty of Big Sky Country, Mary Clearman Blew gives us a glimpse into the lives of her family as she traces their connection to Montana's natural and human landscape. Beginning with her great-grandparents' arrival in 1882 in Montana--still a territory then--Blew …
Balsamroot
A Memoir
Häftad, 2001
283 kr
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Melding past and present into a moving narrative, Mary Clearman Blew imaginatively recreates the dry, dusty, sparsely populated Montana of the early homesteaders and of her aunt Imogene's young womanhood. Striving to understand why her aunt chose a life alone, away from the ranch where she grew up, …
Lambing Out and Other Stories
Häftad, 2001
123 kr
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The short fiction of Mary Clearman Blew, set in Montana, reflects the brutality of the region as seen in the mountains, the severe weather, and the personal hardships of the people living there. In each of these seven stories, the characters, driven to hurt or be hurt, reflect a range of …
Forged in Fire
Essays by Idaho Writers
Av Mary Clearman Blew, Phil Druker
Häftad, 2005
283 kr
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Fire has always gripped our imaginations. To quote Mary Clearman Blew, ""It warms us, frightens us, and entertains us."" In Forged in Fire, Blew and coeditor Phil Druker have assembled twenty gifted writers who explore the element from various perspectives.Living as they do in a state that nearly …
Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin
A Novel
Häftad, 2018
251 kr
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Music, whether a Debussy Étude or Gram Parsons’s “Hickory Wind,” has been a constant in Ruby Gervais’s life. After Ruby helps fuel a paranoid fervor that spreads like wildfire throughout her rural Montana community, her home life deteriorates. As a sixteen-year-old high school dropout busing tables …
Sweep Out the Ashes
A Novel
Häftad, 2019
251 kr
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2020 Spur Award Finalist from Western Writers of AmericaDiana Karnov came to Versailles to uncover secrets. Teaching college history in remote northern Montana offers the opportunity to put distance between herself and her overbearing great-aunts and to uncover information about her parents, …
Waltzing Montana
A Novel
Häftad, 2021
283 kr
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Midwife Mildred Harrington is riding back home one evening after checking on one of her pregnant neighbors when she stumbles upon an injured stranger. She soon realizes it’s her old sweetheart, Pat, from country school-and he may not be telling the full truth about how he was injured.Set in rural …
Think of Horses
A Novel
Häftad, 2022
283 kr
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2023 Western Heritage Award for the Western Novel At age seventeen Tam Bowen left her Montana home in disgrace after giving birth to a son out of wedlock. After working her way through college, she settled in Portland, Oregon, where she began making a living for herself and her son by writing …
This Is not the Ivy League
A Memoir
Inbunden, 2011
304 kr
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Mary Clearman Blew’s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not the Ivy League is her account of …
Bone Deep in Landscape
Writing, Reading, and Place
Häftad, 2000
136 kr
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Great-granddaughter of homesteaders in north-central Montana, Mary Clearman Blew grew up in one of the last vestiges of the rural frontier. Her girlhood chores--hauling water and rounding up cattle--were remote even to her town-bred classmates in the forties and fifties. It was a girlhood she now …
Writing Her Own Life
Imogene Welch, Western Rural Schoolteacher
Inbunden, 2004
352 kr
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Mary Clearman Blew's aunt Imogene Welch embodied the hard-working values of depression-era western America. In Writing Her Own Life, Blew builds a narrative around excerpts from the diaries Imogene kept during World War II while she taught in rural Montana schools and later in Washington State. …
