Barry Bonner: 2 books

This collection of seven stories encompasses a variety of themes, moods, backgrounds, and laughter -provoking incidents. With penetrating wit and insight Mr. Bonner explores the lived of desperate people who are zany, outlandish, somewhat tainted, and can't do anything right- even when their very lives depend on it.

The open range of the 1880s held a bountiful sea of grass for Wyoming cattle growers, but for some it could become a sea of loneliness as it did for the three McKenna brothers. Then a mood struck them -- "it would be nice to have a woman around the house." Encouraged by his older brothers,...