A Novel of the American West
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Colorado
Colorado fiction
Colorado history
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Family Life Fiction
historical fiction
Military Historical Fiction
Peggy Simson Curry
ranch life
So Far from Spring
The Pruett Series
War Fiction
western fiction
Wyoming
Wyoming fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780871083203
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2015
- Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A gripping and startlingly frank novel of life on a cattle ranch set on the Colorado-Wyoming border during the 1890s. The principle characters are Kelsey Cameron, his wife, Prim Munro, the ranch foreman, and the foreman’s wife. The novel’s high point centers on a storm-beaten cattle drive over a mountain barrier to get the cattle to feed and their survival, which exposes the core relationships among the characters whom the reader has come to care about deeply.
Peggy Simson Curry is the author of four novels, a textbook on creative writing, two books of poetry, and numerous articles and short stories, two of which won Western Writers of America Gold Spur Awards for best short fiction of the year. She was inducted into the Western Writers of America Hall of Fame in 1997.
Born in Scotland and raised on a mountain ranch in Colorado, she spent her adult life in Wyoming where she was named the state’s first Poet Laureate in 1980. She was Wyoming Bicentennial Commission Chairman in 1976 and chosen as Wyoming Citizen of the Century in the fine arts category in 1999.
A frequent lecturer at writers conferences, she taught creative writing for more than twenty years at Casper College.
