Blogs in January 1970

My Friend Flicka 1st January 1970

Ken the young daydreamer yearns for a colt of his own. In an effort to drive up his school grades, he is promised his own colt and it is the relationship and the determination of young Ken to do...

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American Chica 1st January 1970

In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily...

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Fine Just the Way it is: Wyoming Stories 3 1st January 1970

The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Shipping News’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’. ‘Fine Just The Way It Is’ marks Annie Proulx’s return to the Wyoming of ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and the familiar cast of...

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A Bargain Struck 1st January 1970

Widower Connor Maguire advertises for a wife to raise his young daughter, Bridget, work the homestead and bear him a son. Ellen O’Sullivan longs for a home, a husband and a family. On paper, she is everything Connor needs...

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When We Were Wolves 1st January 1970

“If you could have been around a hundred and fifty years ago, and passed through the landscape as a beaver-trapping tough with Jim Bridger or Jedediah Smith, before coal barons, before soda ash and oil, before Mormons, before you...

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