Road of Her Own: Woman's Journeys in the West

I wondered what the West would have become if more women had explored the landscape, naming the rivers, valleys, mountains, if we made maps with a feminine geography," puzzles writer Brenda Peterson in her essay, "Detours." A Road of Her Own is first and foremost a chunk of that long-awaited map, created by stories from twenty western women writers, each of whom offers a unique telling, a different road.

Within the book’s pages, share Linda Hasselstrom’s fear and resolve as her car breaks down and she’s stranded in a threatening small town. And rejoice when Kim Barnes succeeds in protecting her small children during a nondescript journey down the road. Shiver and shake as you read about Susan Ewing’s lessons in dog sledding in the Yukon. And meet Susan Tweit as she ponders a lifelong health threat during a hike through the Rockies with a dog. Work, widowhood, recreation, pilgrimages into other cultures, journeys to new life in a new land—these are only a few of the themes that the writers in A Road of Her Own touch upon.