Introduction -- On the divide / Willa Cather -- The wash-tub mail / Gertrude Atherton -- The last antelope / Mary Austin -- When the cook fell ill / B.M. Bower -- The vine / Mari Sandoz -- Mister Death and the red-headed woman / Helen Eustis -- Lost sister / Dorothy M. Johnson -- Geranium house / Peggy Simson Curry -- The promise of the fruit / Ann Ahlswede -- The deep valley / Lucia Moore -- The outsider / Juanita Brooks -- Yellow woman / Leslie Silko.