Cowgirls
100 Years Of Writing The Range
- Publisher
- Red Deer Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2002
- Category
- North America
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889951686
- Publish Date
- Sep 2002
- List Price
- $5.95
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Description
For more than a century, cowgirls have earned their place on the western frontier.
About the author
Thelma Poirier is the author of three previous Coteau Books publications – the memoir Rock Creek and the poetry collections Grasslands, the Private Hearings and Double Visions. She has written two books for young readers, Children of the Wood Mountain Uplands and The Bead Pot, as well as portions of the Field Guide to the Grasslands National Park.She has had a hand in editing five books on the ranching life: Beyond the Range, Cowgirls: 100 Years of Writing the Range, Grass Roots, Wood Mountain Uplands and A Voice of Her Own.Thelma Poirier spent most of her youth and adult life on ranches near Fir Mountain, Saskatchewan, moving to the nearby village of Glentworth in 2004. Ranching, the natural environment and history remain her special interests.
