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About this Book:
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Hear a genuine voice from the nation's prairies. Touch the pulse of the American heartland. Author Jim Steiert vividly captures and shares the unique character of rural life: the taste, the feel — even the smells — of the High Plains and the authentic qualities of the people who have sunk roots here. Country Turnrows is a compilation of some of the best writings from Jim's long-running and award-winning columns, essays and other efforts of rhyme, reason and country-boy philosophy. He explores everything from pocketknives, pumpkins and politics to a boot repair shop saving the “sole” of a clergyman. With gentle humor and poignant clarity, Country Turnrows celebrates bachelor hotcakes, buttermilk pie, the warmth of neighbors, a sense of communion, the bread of compassion, wonders of weather, seasons of planting, harvest and day-to-day life in small towns. Discover what Plains farm folk already know — it’s time well-spent “neighboring” on Country Turnrows.
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About the Author:
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JIM STEIERT writes appreciatively of rural life and the outdoors. He has written his rural-based column ‘‘On the Turnrow,’’ recipient of a National Newspaper Association column-writing award, for over 20 years. He has received numerous writing awards from the Texas Outdoor Writers Association. Country Turnrows is his second book. His first, Playas: Jewels of the Plains, published by Texas Tech University Press, is a natural history of the playa lakes of the Southern High Plains, and was named a Texas Outdoor Writers Association Outdoor Book of the Year.
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