Award-winning memoir of Colorado ranch life in the 1950s. This heartwarming coming-of-age story is filled with animal tales and memories of a "tough as nails" grandad.
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It has hard times, good times, moments of absolute hilarity, rattlesnakes, bobcats and a crusty grandfather. -- Publishers Weekly, Nov. 22, 1999 quoting Gayle Ray of Tattered Cover Bookstore
Readers from 12 to 90 can relish these stories of life on the High Plains during the middle years of this century. Gary Penley has personified in his book Joseph Campbell's admonition to hang on the "rapture of being alive." -- CO) Oct. 15, 1998
Rivers of Wind is a fine book in many respects. For one, it's a well-written, true chronicle of everyday life in rural southeastern Colorado earlier this century. The book is also a top-notch character study of "Dad," Penley's grandfather who raised him, and gives a real feel for those who straddled time from the horse-and-buggy era to the age of airplanes. It's a good read. -- Western Horseman June 1999
Readers from 12 to 90 can relish these stories of life on the High Plains during the middle years of this century. Gary Penley has personified in his book Joseph Campbell's admonition to hang on the "rapture of being alive." -- CO) Oct. 15, 1998
Rivers of Wind is a fine book in many respects. For one, it's a well-written, true chronicle of everyday life in rural southeastern Colorado earlier this century. The book is also a top-notch character study of "Dad," Penley's grandfather who raised him, and gives a real feel for those who straddled time from the horse-and-buggy era to the age of airplanes. It's a good read. -- Western Horseman June 1999
About the Author
Gary Penley was born in Colorado and grew up on a remote cattle ranch in the 1950s. After high school he left the wide open spaces and semi-arid climate of home and served aboard submarines in the U.S. Navy for several years. Following discharge, he attended Weber State University and University of Kansas where he earned his master's degree in geology. Gary lives in Lafayette, Louisiana where he works as a petroleum geologist. Although he has written for outdoor and sporting magazine, Rivers of Wind is his first book.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A wonderful book capturing life on the Colorado plains.,
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This review is from: Rivers of Wind: A Western Boyhood Remembered (Paperback)
Gary Penley has captured a rural lifestyle that is now almost non-existent in this wonderful book. Although not so distant in time, the book transports the reader to a lifestyle where the close relationship of a family is necessary to survive the natural elements. Gary captures this personal piece of American history in a way that keeps one feeling as though they have been transported back in time. This is a book that is so full of emotion - bringing both frequent laughter and tears to the reader - that it is extemely difficult to put down before finishing. Whenever I started to be amazed at the hardships on the ranch, a story within the bigger story caused me to burst out laughing. The book is unique and very much worth reading!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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The best description I've seen of Southeastern Colorado,
By Dave Shelton (Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rivers of Wind: A Western Boyhood Remembered (Paperback)
This is one of the best books I have ever read. I guess it is because I relate to it having been born and raised in Southeastern Colorado during late 1930's on. This book is about an area I know well and gives a wonderful description of the area and folks there. A great area to live in with some of the best people on earth living there.The land is hard and unforgiving to the weakhearted, warm and challenging to the determined. Gary did this book justice and my family enjoyed it. I want to buy our own copy to read it again and again. Thanks
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A Time to Relate,
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This review is from: Rivers of Wind: A Western Boyhood Remembered (Paperback)
In his book, Rivers of Wind, Gary Penley, introduces his grandfather called
Dad, as a person that every reader can relate to and remember fond memories of their own grandfather. Dad was a man with integrity, the ability to keep his word just on a hand shake, instilled hard work and the love of God. These characteristics were evidently passed on to Gary Penley and his brother, George. As I read this book, I could easily relate and feel a connection with the memories of my own grandfather called George. I remember the strength that he demonstrated through the lean and hard times which made me who I am today.
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- Stories from Where We Live -- The Great North American Prairie by Sara St. Antoine on page 16, and Back Matter
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