Summary
It's impossible to resist J. California Cooper's slow and easy writing style; it seems to beckon, "Come, sit a spell, chile. Let me tell you a story."
"Life Is Short but Wide," a chronicle of small-town life in fictional Wideland, Okla., begins in the early 1900s with an African- American cowboy named Val Strong and his Native American brother- friend, Wings, who rode into town "on horses they had caught, broken, and trained themselves," looking for a home for Val's new wife.See the full content of this document
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Small Town Is Setting for Big Issues
Val ends up buying a large two-story house from "the last white person on t...
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