The Grass Creek Chronicle is set in a Wyoming oil field camp during World War II, with a 10-year-old girl as its protagonist and observant chronicler. Though the war seems a distant rumble, it becomes more immediate when a Japanese internment camp is built on nearby Heart Mountain. While the child observer doesn't judge either the adults or other children with whom she interacts, the fragments of life in wartime with which she builds her story show over and over how mundane choices, both her own and of those around her, often have impactful, momentous, and sometimes hurtful consequences. And in an irony fit for cruel times, the two adults most deserving of her admiration are her Bavarian grandfather and a young Japanese man from the internment camp.

"The Grass Creek Chronicle is set in a Wyoming oil field camp during World War II, with a 10-year-old girl as its protagonist and observant chronicler. Though the war seems a distant rumble, it becomes more immediate when a Japanese internment camp is built on nearby Heart Mountain. While the child observer doesn't judge either the adults or other children with whom she interacts, the fragments of life in wartime with which she builds her story show over and over how mundane choices, both her own and of those around her, often have impactful, momentous, and sometimes hurtful consequences. And in an irony fit for cruel times, the two adults most deserving of her admiration are her Bavarian grandfather and a young Japanese man from the internment camp"--Amazon.com.

For nearly two decades, award-winning photographer Dick Kettlewell has celebrated the landscapes and wildlife of the North American prairie in images and words. Gleaned from the best of his photo essays originally published in the Rapid City Journal, here are stunning close-ups of free-ranging pronghorn, mountain goats in the Black Hills, spectacular sunsets, waterfowl and bald eagles, fields of wildflowers, and vast skyscapes. Kettlewell's stories of the native flora and fauna draw you into the interconnected life of this quintessential American ecosystem.

Chronicles the natural and human history of the Southern Plains through rancher Sue Selman's memories of growing up on a working cattle ranch in western Oklahoma, along with the author's seasonal diary of the Great Plains, and photographer Don House's black-and-white images and journal entries.

A collection of 22 stories by Texas women writers that weave a story of their own: the story of women's writing in the Lone Star State, from 1865 to the present. Authors include Berverly Lowry, Carolyn Osborn, Annette Sanford, Denise Chavez, Katherine Anne Porter, Judy Alter and Joyce Gibson Roach.

“A bountiful smorgasbord of classic and lesser known stories by accomplished Kentucky writers who provide a feast for readers of modern short fiction.” —Ann Charters, author of The Story and Its Writer With an introduction by Wade Hall Morris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways, they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors call home, whether by birth or by choice. Kentucky writers have produced some of the finest short stories published in the last fifty years, much of which focuses on the tension between the comforts of community and the siren-like lure of the outside world. Arranged chronologically, from Robert Penn Warren’s “Blackberry Winter” to Crystal E. Wilkinson’s “Humming Back Yesterday,” these stories are linked by their juxtaposition of departures and returns, the familiar and the unknown, home and beyond. “The story of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is told and retold by a mixed but balanced chorus of voices that sings like the wind down the ridges and along the creekbeds.” —Appalachian Journal “Readers needn’t be from Kentucky to appreciate these stories . . . Prepare to be wowed by these superior examples of the form.” —The Bloomsbury Review “From Robert Penn Warren to Bobbie Ann Mason, Kentucky hatches writers like other states create tourist traps.” —The Nashville Tennessean “If you love Kentucky authors, this anthology of short stories is a must for your Kentucky collection.” —Bourbon Times