2023 Western Heritage Award for the Western Novel At age seventeen Tam Bowen left her Montana home i... more

Melding past and present into a moving narrative, Mary Clearman Blew imaginatively recreates the dry, dusty, sparsely...... more

Midwife Mildred Harrington is riding back home one evening after checking on one of her pregnant nei... more

father, and the capacity for women to work and learn is not as set and certain as she was taught. Mary Clearman Blew deftly...... more

, Ruby doesn t think twice. In Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin Mary Clearman Blew deftly braids together memories of the past...... more

Mary Clearman Blew’s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural...... more

The departed men in her life still have plenty to say to Corey. Her father, a legendary rodeo cowboy... more

Mary Clearman Blew s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural...... more

Fire has always gripped our imaginations. To quote Mary Clearman Blew, "It warms us, frightens us, and entertains us...... more

Mary Clearman Blew s aunt Imogene Welch embodied the hard-working values of depression-era western America. In Writing...... more

Lost for almost half a century and never before published, When Montana and I Were Young is a remark... more

In this series of linked stories the child narrator, Veve, cannot fathom all the mysteries of her fa... more

This striking array of stories, essays, and poems reflects women s experiences in the American West.... more

The short fiction of Mary Clearman Blew, set in Montana, reflects the brutality of the region as seen in the mountains...... more

In language reminiscent of the wild beauty of Big Sky Country, Mary Clearman Blew gives us a glimpse into the lives of...... more

Great-granddaughter of homesteaders in north-central Montana, Mary Clearman Blew grew up in one of the last vestiges of...... more

The Curlew’s Cry is the story of three decades in the life of Pamela Lacey and a Montana town. Desce... more

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press Charles Shirley W... more

weary lines at night into the diaries that continue to enthrall us. In her new foreword, Professor Mary Clearman Blew...... more