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- Rightful Place
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Texas Tech University Press
summary
Words that spring from a deep intimacy with the land
From the Texas panhandle to the mountains of Arizona, Amy Auker has lived the cowboy life—as wife, as mother, as cook, as ranch hand, as writer. In fine-grained detail she captures the prairie light, the traffic on small farm-to-market roads, the vacant stillness of shipping pens when fall works are over. But she also captures the unmistakable westernness of the people and animals around her: the son who must get back on the horse, the husband who gives great gifts, the horses whose names and temperaments are as recognizable as family. Auker understands those who live in the sway of nature’s moods far off the main roads, and she commends them to us in luminous prose backlit by her own hard-earned experience.
From the Texas panhandle to the mountains of Arizona, Amy Auker has lived the cowboy life—as wife, as mother, as cook, as ranch hand, as writer. In fine-grained detail she captures the prairie light, the traffic on small farm-to-market roads, the vacant stillness of shipping pens when fall works are over. But she also captures the unmistakable westernness of the people and animals around her: the son who must get back on the horse, the husband who gives great gifts, the horses whose names and temperaments are as recognizable as family. Auker understands those who live in the sway of nature’s moods far off the main roads, and she commends them to us in luminous prose backlit by her own hard-earned experience.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxiii-xxiv
- Highway 294
- pp. 6-8
- Weather Talk
- pp. 9-12
- The Pantagonians
- pp. 17-20
- Facing North
- pp. 21-23
- Merchandise
- pp. 24-26
- Bread Bowl
- pp. 27-31
- Ground Beef
- pp. 37-41
- Every Horseman
- pp. 42-46
- Family Tree
- pp. 47-52
- Handmade Life
- pp. 53-57
- Fourth of July
- pp. 58-61
- Out of the Blue
- pp. 62-64
- Cloud Come to Earth
- pp. 83-84
- Ten Inches of Sand
- pp. 88-89
- The Round Pen
- pp. 93-97
- The Address Book
- pp. 98-102
- A Legacy of Snakes and Stones
- pp. 103-109
- Small White Squares
- pp. 110-113
- Rightful Place
- pp. 114-118
- About the Author
- p. 123
Additional Information
ISBN
9780896728905
Related ISBN(s)
9780896726796
MARC Record
OCLC
933516551
Pages
156
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No