Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West Book

	Introduction : beyond Crazy Woman Creek
	Banana bread and coffee	3
	The shearing	4
	Object of affection	4
	At the line dance cafe	6
	Posse to the rescue	7
	Superior laundry, Sheridan, Wyoming	13
	Right place, wrong time	14
	Casserole culture in highlands ranch	14
	Patchwork for baby	17
	Wonderbra soldiers	17
	Picking peaches	18
	Run toward suffering	20
	Watch the big house burn	22
	Room for a small house	25
	The hippie central library fest	26
	Rhino rump, chicken palace, and kindness	29
	Waiting to dance	30
	Where the river bends	31
	Far-flung neighbors	32
	I suppose it was the food	35
	Bound	37
	Soakers unite	39
	No one baked cookies	41
	Boomtown, babies, and strawberry pie	42
	No treasure in Bismarck	44
	Grab your shawls, girls!	45
	Warm hearts, cold reality	46
	Standing in line at Aldrich's Grocery	50
	A light shawl on a cool night	51
	Echoes on the wind	53
	Cliff dwellings : Mesa Verde	57
	Path to a small world	58
	Simply, soul soup	60
	After moving away from 610	63
	Have cattle, will travel	65
	Women of the Journal star	67
	Valley essential : Gladys Smith	69
	Old women's domain	70
	Mine shack memories	71
	Well - you told me to	72
	Surviving at great cost	73
	From Canton to Spearfish	74
	The brown sofa	77
	Feedings the spirit	77
	At the greasy spoon	78
	Vagina dialogues on the road trip	80
	Shelter for each other	81
	Champagne toast at midnight	83
	The logging bee	84
	Wood ash on the wind	86
	Nevada firestorm	87
	Women in pickups	90
	Gifts from our hands and hearts	91
	To dance with grace	91
	Tupperware therapy	94
	Banding together in San Francisco	95
	Concert of energy	97
	Writing into the storm	101
	Too busy to be church ladies	102
	How do I thank ...?	105
	We four	106
	A haunting experience	109
	Rejuvenating the Clearfield Hall and me	112
	The wolf pack in the school district	113
	The non-musicals sing their last song	116
	Fifty years of potluck	117
	The woman who didn't fit in	119
	Wednesdays at Walgreens	120
	A couple of nights before Christmas	121
	Why we still sing when other choirs dissolved	123
	Savoring the circle	124
	Perching	126
	Hallelujah! faith circle!	129
	Bingo babes	130
	I'm afraid I can't attend the next meeting	132
	Concerning my Hutterite cousins	133
	Straightforward and unafraid	137
	The spite and malice sewing circle	139
	A square of winter light	140
	Speak, throw up, or die	141
	What it took	143
	You always start with a baptism	145
	The brotherhood of railroad workers	146
	Our ladies of the farm	148
	Convergence of horse-crazy women	149
	Hook and turn	151
	Cindergals never looked back	152
	The hobo Mark swooshed	155
	Endurance in harmony	156
	The caring Cleveland club	156
	A good thing to do	157
	The circle dance	159
	"I bring you the gift of my dying"	160
	The Ramah farmers' market	163
	Forecasting the future of food	164
	Down gravel roads	166
	Woman sculpted of stones	167
	Making room for Jesus and Buddha	168
	What I hate most about you	171
	Pickin' chickens	172
	Watch where you step	173
	Comments from the crow's-nest	176
	Rodeo moms	177
	When the world split	179
	Tuesday tea	181
	Choir practice at the Bongo Lounge	182
	Popcorn in the ER	185
	Old woman with a mind	186
	Electric Avenue books	187
	September 12, 2001	190
	Funeral meats	191
	Weeders, all	195
	The communion of saints	196
	Desert filament	201
	The far side of Maple Street	202
	Quilting a dissertation	206
	The living, the warm	207
	The elegance of white things	209
	Celebrating mass in a nightgown	212
	In a time of war	214
	Stitching my life project	214
	I like it that way	216
	Leaving sad town	218
	Silent renewal	222
	More alike than different	223
	Ongoing sustenance	224
	Tapestry woven of stories	226
	Your sister's keeper	229
	Ghost dance II	229
	Feeling North Dakota and looking California	231
	Things I would not miss	232
	Stretching friendship	235
	Alone, not lonely	237
	Tortilla round	238
	Slot mamas	240
	Crone circle : grandmothers giving wisdom	241
	United Methodist fellowship	243
	Beadwork	244
	Colorado ritual	247
	Cowgirl up, cupcakes	248
	Re-entry : homeward bound	250
	Liesel, you're a good Christian	251
	Sonnet for my grandchild	254
	Never silent again	255
	The drumbeat continues	256
	Checkup, checkout	258
	Plant sale grows roots	261
	One panel of a quilt	263
	One word at a time	264
	Dealing Uno and life	267
	Anaconda copper dreams	268
	Where they know my name	269
	La Mujer y Su Cultura	272
	On watermelon and stout roads	272
	A world apart	273
	Belongings	274
	AfterWord	276
	Contributors	279
	Acknowledgments	297
	Credits	298