Hard Ground III
  • ISBN No. 0-9714725-5-6 | $19.95
  • 288 Pages | Trade Paper

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Hard Ground III

Writing the Rockies

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A collection of selected works submitted to Pronghorn Press’s Annual Hard Ground Writing Contest, this volume reflects a complex range of feelings about the West of today. No longer the land of gunfighters, today’s West is still a land where guns claim lives. Wild Indians no longer threaten the lives of settlers but those who today’s settlers still affect the lives of the Native Americans in a constantly changing culture. Not only has the Old West of the 1800’s faded, the West of the 1900’s has disappeared as well and yet the New West still calls to people for many diverse and sometimes incomprehensible reasons.

This is the West of HARD GROUND 2000: The awesome grandure of the natural world, the proliferation of For Sale signs and the taste of a sun warmed cantaloupe, the school shootings, the drug addiction and complexities of relationships all told with an undercurrent of love for these still wide open spaces.In poetry and prose these writers show us what it means to live in the West today.