Tapestry | Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx
The Half-Skinned Steer
He said he would be at the funeral. No point talking about flights and meeting him at the airport. He intended to drive. Of course he knew how far it was. He had a damn fine car, never had an accident in his life, knock on wood
A Resolute Man
James Duke, at fifty, was complicated, dark-haired, and somewhat handsome. He took a hardheaded and hardhanded stance to disguise an inner recognition of worthlessness. Quixotic, he swung from morbid self-pity to rigid authority over his crews and himself. The future flickered before him as a likely series of disappointments.
Tits Up in a Ditch
Annie Proulx’s short story about the difficult life of a young woman from a Wyoming ranching family.
The Blood Bay
Short story about three Wyoming cowboys in a blizzard who find a frozen corpse wearing a pair of beautiful hand-made boots.
The Bunchgrass Edge of the World
A run-down, abandoned tractor starts talking to Ottaline Touhey, a lonely Wyoming rancher’s daughter. She has started to fix it up when she meets and…
The Mud Below
Twenty-three-year-old Diamond Felts is a rodeo bull rider about to go into the arena on the back of a bull called Little Kisses...
55 Miles to the Gas Pump
Rancher Croom in handmade boots and filthy hat, that walleyed cattleman, stray hairs like the curling fiddle string ends, that warm-handed, quick-foot dancer on splintery boards...
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