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100 Years of Cowboy Stories, Edited by Ted Sione,
Red Deer College Press, pp. 223, paper

| EXPECTED cowboy stories of the penny-
dreadful variety.

By Barbara Black
Contributing Writer

But editor Ed Stone goss beyond the formula
Wester to find some excellent stories which explore
different facets of the Wild West. As he explains in his
introduction, the cowboy story has evolved from the
purely fictional “Virginian” series created by Owen
Wister, to a more realistic, insightful kind of writing
penned by. authors who were cowboys themselves.

“The cowboy, symbol of freedom and indepen-
dence, is treated in a variety of ways in this collection.
The western storytelling tradition comes alive in

Omar Barker's Trail Fever, where characters named

Rusty and Brazos Bill wrestle over their respective
degrees of cowboy machismo. The language is pure
western lingo: “The only wahoo not mud-caked from
boot heel to brisket was Old Tuck Fargus, the cross-
eyed cook.”

On the other hand. Sandoz’s “The Girl in the
Humbert" and Stegner’s “Carrion Spring.” both sto-
ries chronicling the hardships of homesteading, joia
the ranks of “serious” literature.

The collection ends aptly with Pam Houston's
“Cowboys are my Weakness,” a look behind the
Marlboro Man mystique. Overall, the book was a
refreshing surprise for a cowboy skeptic tike me.

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Art Gallery will open for new win-
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allow. the gallery. to remain open
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The gallery will be closed
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The price of admission in 1995
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including 60 North American muse-
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down of gallery services and hours.

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