Hot Biscuits : eighteen stories by women and men of the ranching West /
edited by Max Evans and Candy Moulton.
- 1st ed.
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2002.
- 239 p. ; 23 cm.
Introduction: To the wonder of reality / Max Evans -- One man's land / Taylor Fogarty -- Cowboys fly / J.P.S. Brown -- Guiding light / Willard Hollopeter -- Violinist's story / Elaine Long -- Rough string rider / Sinclair Browning -- Night ride / Slim Randles -- Natural causes / Lori Van Pelt -- Stormy Blue Jitney / Grem Lee -- Open winter / Candy Moulton -- Junior / Dick Hyson -- Spooky cook / Sally Harper Bates -- Nightwatch / Virginia Bennett -- Wreck / Curt Brummett -- Old man / Jimbo Brewer -- Divine intervention / Paula Paul -- Dry bogged / Helen C. Avery -- Present / Gwen Petersen -- Once a cowboy / Max Evans -- Afterword: Cowboy truths / Candy Moulton.
The stories in this anthology range as wide as the Rockies, from a murder mystery to the tale of a unique horse trainer, to a family's desperate battle against a grass and forest fire to the story of a world famous violinist. But they share a common denominator: biscuits. Almost every story includes hot biscuits as a feature of daily life in the working West. Biscuits, as it turns out, are more important in western life than guns, and maybe more than coffee. In the West, people who could make superior biscuits received more respect than the mayor and the police chief combined
082632889X (alk. paper)
2002002092
Western stories. Cowboys Ranch life Cattle trade Working class writings, American--West (U.S.)