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About the Author Joyce Roach's roots are in rural Texas. She has never gotten over it, nor is she trying. The rural past is the source of her best writing in non-fiction-Eats: A Folk History ofTexas Food5-Coauthored with Ernestine Sewell Linck; fiction, a short story- "Just As I Am" -Doubleday Anthology, Women ofthe West; children's stories-A Horned Toad}s Christmas; musical folkdrama - Texanna and Nancy MacIntyre} A Tale ofthe Prairies, and humorous narrative -"A High Toned Woman"- from Hoein} the Short Rows. She speaks, sings, teaches and writes about the West and agrees with one of the lines from The Cowgirl~"lf it's any better on the outside, I'm willing to be cheated." Joyce Gibson Roach is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas Folklore Society, atwo-time winner ofthe SpurAward from Western Writers ofAmerica-one ofthem for The Cowgirl~and a recipient of the Carr P. Collins Award for nonfiction from the TIL. ...

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