'Crazy Woman Creek' authors celebrate in Sandoz spirit

Hasselstrom, an editor of “Crazy Woman Creek – Women Rewrite the American West,” gathered with the book’s two other editors and about 40 of its contributors at Chadron State College’s Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center on Saturday. The event featured readings from the new book and a birthday celebration for Sandoz, the northwest Nebraska author who gained prominence for “telling it like it was” about the settlement of the High Plains.

As “Crazy Woman Creek’s” authors presented readings from their new book Saturday morning, Hasselstrom interspersed quotes from Sandoz – many of them directed toward the late author’s editors in spite.

“Crazy Woman Creek,” which features stories from 133 women throughout the West, is the third installment in a series of anthologies by women, in which they tell stories of their joys and tribulations. The other authors are Gaydell Collier of Sundance, Wyo., and Nancy Curtis of Glendo, Wyo. The other two books are “Leaning Into the Wind” and “Woven on the Wind.”