Rightful Place (Voice in the American West) - Softcover

Auker, Amy Hale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896728870 ISBN 13: 9780896728875

Publisher: Texas Tech Press,U.S., 2014

Synopsis

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 creatures around her: the son who must get back on the horse that just bucked him off, the husband who gives great gifts, the animals 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.

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Review:

[Auker's] writing transcends the contemporary cattle culture and her harsh Texas landscape to become a template for creating a richer life.
--John Dofflemyer, author of Poems from Dry Creek

Passionate, gritty, and an unvarnished glimpse into the life of a ranch woman/wife/mother.
--Candy Moulton, The Fence Post

About the Author:

Amy Hale Auker writes essays, poems, and fiction while working for day wages on an Arizona ranch. Twenty years on commercial cattle operations in Texas cooking for cowboys, home-schooling children, and taking long walks have given her material for writing about a way of life that is alive and well in the heart of the American west. She lives in Prescott, Arizona, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas Tech Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0896728870
• ISBN 13: 9780896728875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156