Now a Denver Post bestseller
"Addictive. Highly recommended!"--Paulette Jiles, New York Times
bestselling author of News of the World
Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply
affecting ode to the early twentieth century West, from master
storyteller Sandra Dallas.
Except for the way they loved each other, they were just ordinary,
everyday folks. Just ordinary.
1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster
had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within
a year's time she's fallen in love--both with the High Plains and with a
handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon. Life is not easy in the flat, brown
corner of the state where winter blizzards are unforgiving and the
summer heat relentless. But Ellen and Charlie face it all together,
their relationship growing stronger with each shared success, and each
deeply felt tragedy.
Ellen finds purpose in her work as a rancher's wife and in her bonds
with other women settled on the prairie. Not all of them are so lucky as
to have loving husbands, not all came to Wallace willingly, and not all
of them can survive the cruel seasons. But they look out for each other,
share their secrets, and help one another in times of need. And the
needs are great and constant. The only city to speak of, Cheyenne, is
miles away, making it akin to the Wild West in rural Wallace. In the
end, it is not the trials Ellen and Charlie face together that make them
remarkable, but their love for one another that endures through it all.
