Graining the mare: the poetry of ranch women

Ride to the cattle / Sally Bates

For grandpa / Virginia Bennett

The tough goodbye / Virginia Bennett

Coffee row / Doris Bircham

Weaning time / Doris Bircham

After the funeral / Doris Bircham

Leaving / Doris Bircham

What counts most / Afton Bloxham

Sisters / Judy Blunt

Josephine Hall / Judy Blunt

When cowboys cry / Judy Blunt

At the Stockman bar, where the men fall in love, and the women just fall / Judy Blunt

Gathering mint / Laurie Wagner Buyer

Purple tulips / Laurie Wagner Buyer

Eight rabbits / Laurie Wagner Buyer

Flowering almond / Jane Candia Coleman

Old Pete / Jane Candia Coleman

Poor Will's widow / Jane Candia Coleman

Sandhill cranes / Jane Candia Coleman

When words first spoke to me / Peggy Simson Curry

The hunt / Peggy Simson Curry

Jack Patton / Peggy Simson Curry

Cowpath / Ruth Daniels

City cousin / Ruth Daniels

Reflection / Lyn DeNaeyer

Breakin' even / Lyn DeNaeyer

Store Candy / Elizabeth Ebert

An ordinary morning / Elizabeth Ebert

Song from the day the pump broke / Elizabeth Ebert

The orchard / Gretel Ehrlich

For David / Gretel Erlich

Born in the afternoon / Gretel Erlich

Happy Birthday / Martha Downer Ellis

Never let us think / Martha Downer Ellis

People will talk / June Brander Gilman, Helen Kay Brander

Old Vogal / Peggy Godfrey

Roland / Peggy Godfrey

Perfect wife / Peggy Godfrey

Relapse / Audrey Hankins

Driving into a storm / Linda Hasselstrom

Seasons in South Dakota / Linda Hasselstrom

Rancher roulette / Linda Hasselstrom

Planting peas / Linda Hasselstrom

Beef eater / Linda Hasselstrom

New ranch wife / Joan Hoffman

The lonely, empty, prairie sky / Joan Hoffman

Helen / Joan Hoffman

I remember being beautiful / Joan Hoffman

Remembering Willie Mae / Joan Hoffman

The other voices / Linda Hogan

Left hand canyon / Linda Hogan

Celebration: birth of a colt / Linda Hogan

Homestead in Hell Creek Canyon / Linda Hussa

Under the hunter moon / Linda Hussa

Homesteaders, poor and dry / Linda Hussa

The widow Olson / Linda Hussa

The blue filly / Linda Hussa

Evening, four mile / Margot Liberty

Rain prayer / Margot Liberty

Epitaph / Margot Liberty

Graining the mare / Jo-Ann Mapson

Spooking the horses / Jo-Ann Mapson

Tell us again / Jo-Ann Mapson

The rummage sale / Jennifer Olds

Blinding the infidel / Jennifer Olds

Our mother's mother / Varlena Orr

First job / Varlena Orr

Prophecy / Varlena Orr

A tall bush / Gwen Petersen

A cussin' woman / Gwen Petersen

Those damned wire gates / Gwen Petersen

Burrowing owl / Thelma Poirier

Old coyote hunting man / Thelma Poirier

Madame Caillier / Thelma Poirier

Sorting cattle / Thelma Poirier

At the branding / Thelma Poirier

Grasslander / Thelma Poirier

You ask / Lisa Quinlan

If I left / Penelope Reedy

Taco sauce: 1982 / Peneolpe Reedy

Berry me not / Jeane Rhodes

Reaching in / Edith Rylander

Dumb animals / Edith Rylander

The firstborn / Edith Rylander

Watching the stuff on the news / Edith Rylander

Out to grass / Edith Rylander

Finding / Marie W. Smith

The diagnoses / Marie W. Smith

Via satellite / Marie W. Smith

Catalogs / Marie W. Smith

Yes, it was my grandmother / Luci Tapahonso

Sheepherder blues / Luci Tapahonso

Raisin eyes / Luci Tapahonso

In 1864 / Luci Tapahonso

Fear / Myrt Wallis

Bittercreek women / Myrt Wallis

Thaw / Myrt Wallis

Coyote bitch / Sue Wallis

Timothy Draw / Sue Wallis

Lead mare / Sue Wallis

To the gauchas of Salta / Sue Wallis

Mama lessons / Sue Wallis