Far Pastures LITERARY COLLECTIONS Essays before branching into breakfasts

before branching into breakfasts

The year is 1885 and Abigail Peacock is resisting what seems to be an inevitable future—a sensible career as a teacher and marriage to the earnestly attentive local storeowner

Sometimes Kind captures a network of friends

Somebody’s Child

With a flatly optimistic belief in the power of routine

Far Pastures LITERARY COLLECTIONS Essays before branching into breakfastsThe stories in Far Pastures take readers to R. M. Pattersons homestead in the Peace River country of northern Alberta. To all night dances that ended as the northern lights faded in the dawn. To escapades on the Fort Nelson, Liard and South Nahanni rivers. And to a ranch in southern Alberta where he raised cattle during the lean years of the 1930s and entertained dudes on mountaintops. In later years, Patterson helped build a wartime road through the