Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers Book

	Introduction
	The Sow in the River	1
	Woodcutting on Lost Mountain	10
	The Secret of Cartwheels	17
	Iona Moon	35
	When I Was Ten, at Night	53
	Luck	54
	The Just Rewards	56
	Changing	58
	From Housekeeping	62
	Rules	74
	Songs Were Horses I Rode	78
	They Keep Their Story	79
	For Mary, on the Snake	80
	Visiting the Hutterites	83
	Scale	101
	From Missing You	103
	From The Jailing of Cecelia Capture	108
	In the Hellgate Wind	133
	The Difference in Effects of Temperature Depending on Geographical Location East or West of the Continental Divide: A Letter	135
	It's Come to This	137
	From The Jump-Off Creek	158
	Bones	168
	Leaving Home	180
	What Comes of Winter	181
	At the Stockman Bar, Where the Men Fall in Love, and the Women Just Fall	183
	From Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir	186
	Entering Smoot, Wyoming Pop. 239	197
	Seasons	199
	Cry	212
	Tracks	214
	The Sawyer's Wife	215
	Fires	219
	In My Next Life	242
	Red Rock Ceremonies	258
	Claiming Lives	259
	Moving Day at the Widow Cain's	262
	Island	264
	The Force of One Voice	268
	Legend in a Small Town	269
	From Relative Distances	271
	The Other Side of Fire	278
	A Coyote Is Loping Across the Water	300
	The Hunsaker Blood	315
	How I Came West, and Why I Stayed	326
	From Rima in the Weeds	341
	Circle of Women	356
	Calling the Coyotes In	358
	The Smell of Rain	359
	The Clan of One-Breasted Women	362
	Notes on the Contributors	373