Hot Biscuits :
by 20160731 frey50
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : University of New Mexico Press, (Albuquerque :) , 2002 Physical details: 239 p. ; 23 cm. ISBN:082632889X (alk. paper).| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 800 - 899 | 813.087408 Hot (Browse shelf) | Available | 80667 |
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| 813.0108 Com The Company of dogs | 813.01083278 Sti Still wild : | 813.087408 Cen A century of great Western stories | 813.087408 Hot Hot Biscuits : | 813.087408 Hot Hot Biscuits : | 813.087409 Gro Growing up western : | 813.09 Ree Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
Introduction: To the wonder of reality / Max Evans -- One man's land / Taylor Fogarty -- Cowboys fly / J.P.S. Brown -- Guiding light / Willard Hollopeter -- Violinist's story / Elaine Long -- Rough string rider / Sinclair Browning -- Night ride / Slim Randles -- Natural causes / Lori Van Pelt -- Stormy Blue Jitney / Grem Lee -- Open winter / Candy Moulton -- Junior / Dick Hyson -- Spooky cook / Sally Harper Bates -- Nightwatch / Virginia Bennett -- Wreck / Curt Brummett -- Old man / Jimbo Brewer -- Divine intervention / Paula Paul -- Dry bogged / Helen C. Avery -- Present / Gwen Petersen -- Once a cowboy / Max Evans -- Afterword: Cowboy truths / Candy Moulton.
The stories in this anthology range as wide as the Rockies, from a murder mystery to the tale of a unique horse trainer, to a family's desperate battle against a grass and forest fire to the story of a world famous violinist. But they share a common denominator: biscuits. Almost every story includes hot biscuits as a feature of daily life in the working West. Biscuits, as it turns out, are more important in western life than guns, and maybe more than coffee. In the West, people who could make superior biscuits received more respect than the mayor and the police chief combined