Leaning Into The Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West

In the true stories, essays, and poems of Leaning into the Wind we meet the real women of the High Plains today - women far more interesting than the shiny cowgirls of Madison Avenue. Here are reflections on cowboys real and fake, tractor-driving lessons, outhouses, and the uses of baling wire; here are ranch marriages, enduring and not; family legacies; loss and renewal. Westerners will find their friends and neighbors in these pages; others will find a vivid portrait of the women of a region all too often mythologized.