Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West

by Linda M. Hasselstrom

Book Overview

Crazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole. Long troubled by the misguided images of skinny cowgirls on prancing palominos, the editors embarked on a mission to set the record straight. They wanted these western women to reveal the realities of their lives in their own words.
In Crazy Woman Creek, 153 women west of the Mississippi write of the ways they shape and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618249338
• ISBN13: 9780618249336
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Honest, heartwarming, hopeful

This anthology is a collection of essays and poems by women who live (or lived) in the American West, on their idea of what community means to them. Some of these women are professional writers, and some are previously unpublished writers, but some simply have a story to tell. And what stories! These women write in a straightforward and unpretentious manner about the women (and men) who lift them up, aggravate them, support them, teach them, and, more often than not, need their help in return. We hear stories of Native American healers, church groups serving funeral lunches, firefighters, book clubs, families, snow-shovel posses, and politics in the West. I feel like I want to give this book to all of my close women friends, whether they physically live in my community or not. The essays in this book will definitely make you think about your own connections to others, no matter what size town you call home. I highly recommend it, and cannot wait to get my hands on the other anthologies by these editors (Leaning into the Wind, and Woven on the Wind).

A must for any woman--western or not

To be quite honest, the only reason I bought this book was because my friend's essay was in it. Wow! now I want to buy all of the books in this series of anthologies. These are true stories by our friends, neighbors, and people we probably don't much care for who live down the lane. And because these women so fearlessly let us into their lives, we are able to be part of that circle of comapssion and understanding that is what I believe is the true nature of humanity. Yeah I know, I'm making it sound like it's a bluepprint for world peace--but maybe it is! Anyway, these are stories(and poems) that will make you weep and laugh out loud --I would recommend it to any type ofwomen studies groups.