"Native as the sweet grass of Montana, this poetry, passionate and compassionate, mourning song and tribute, rises and waves with the spirits of Montana's past. This beautiful first volume proves Bonnie Buckley Maldonado to be the hard-won, miraculous bloom of her people, their land, and history. Without a doubt, she is Montana's unofficial poet laureate. I read this finely wrought story-in-poems and wept."
-Victoria Edwards Tester, author of Miracles of Sainted Earth, winner of the 2003 Willa Literary Award in Poetry

"Bonnie Maldonado's lyric and profound musings on a past Montana should catapult her into the growing company of those great classics of the West, running from Mark Twain through Louise Erdrich and James Welch."
-Larry Godfrey, student and teacher of American culture

"Ms. Maldonado's sense of rhythm, converging with imagery, captures an honesty found only in the West."
-John Gist, author of CrowHeart and Lizard Dreaming of Birds

"Bonnie Buckley Maldonado has written a book of Western story poems that touches my mind, and soul, and no matter your background, it will touch you, too. If you are looking for what it means to be a Westerner, you will find it in Bonnie's poems."
-Nelson Hagerson, Jr., fellow rancher, poet, professor, and editor

"Ms. Maldonado has vividly reanimated a West lost to time...vivid and refreshing!"
-Tom McCoy, author of Days Like These