Where Coyotes Howl, Sandra Dallas
Where Coyotes Howl, Sandra Dallas
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Where Coyotes Howl

Author: Sandra Dallas

Narrator: Stephanie Németh-Parker

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2023


Synopsis

"...exhilarating and hard to resist." —The Washington Post on the Westering Women audiobook

"Addictive. Highly recommended!"—Paulette Jiles, New York Times bestselling author of News of the World

"Németh-Parker delivers a powerful performance, smoothly transitioning to several different characters throughout the audiobook. Her captivating storytelling will evoke tears, especially during the heartrending climax and bittersweet conclusion."- AudioFile

Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth century West, from master storyteller Sandra Dallas.

Except for the way they loved each other, they were just ordinary, everyday folks. Just ordinary.

1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within a year’s time she’s fallen in love—both with the High Plains and with a handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon. Life is not easy in the flat, brown corner of the state where winter blizzards are unforgiving and the summer heat relentless. But Ellen and Charlie face it all together, their relationship growing stronger with each shared success, and each deeply felt tragedy.

Ellen finds purpose in her work as a rancher’s wife and in her bonds with other women settled on the prairie. Not all of them are so lucky as to have loving husbands, not all came to Wallace willingly, and not all of them can survive the cruel seasons. But they look out for each other, share their secrets, and help one another in times of need. And the needs are great and constant. The only city to speak of, Cheyenne, is miles away, making it akin to the Wild West in rural Wallace. In the end, it is not the trials Ellen and Charlie face together that make them remarkable, but their love for one another that endures through it all.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

About Sandra Dallas

SANDRA DALLAS, dubbed “a quintessential American voice” by Jane Smiley in Vogue Magazine, is the author of over a dozen novels, including Little Souls and Where Coyotes Howl, many translated into a dozen languages and optioned for films. Six-time winner of the Willa Award and four-time winner of the Spur Award, Dallas was a Business Week reporter for 35 years, and began writing fiction in 1990. She has two daughters and lives with her husband in Denver and Georgetown, Colorado.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shelley's Book Nook on March 30, 2025

My Reviews Can Also Be Found On: The Book Review Crew Blog This book was so terribly sad but I also found some parts very heartwarming. Everyone needs to find someone that loves them the way Charlie loved Ellen and vice versa. This is a very romantic book but in a really unique way. The troubled times......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on July 02, 2024

I’ve been meaning to read another book by Sandra Dallas since I read Westering Women and I finally got around to another historical fiction novel focusing on the strong women settling in the West. Wyoming where the winters are fiercely cold and snowy, where the living is tough on everyone, but espec......more

Where Coyotes Howl by Sandra Dallas was both a heartwarming yet heartbreaking novel that was written with attention to detail. It was a character driven book that was well plotted. I particularly enjoyed the strong female characters in Where Coyotes Howl. I actually listened to the audiobook version......more

Goodreads review by Kara on March 19, 2023

Well, I guess after reading this, I’m just gonna start with. I’m thankful that I did not live during this time. The author does an excellent job depicting the very depressing and numerous deaths that happen throughout the story, so much that I felt slightly depressed for my newfound friends when I f......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on April 18, 2023

A new teacher in town. Will she stay since none of the other teachers last a year? They don't last in Wallace because it's so small, and the winters and summers are brutally cold and brutally hot. Ellen wasn't sure how things would work, but she was willing to give this small Western town a try. When s......more


Quotes

Advance Praise for Where Coyotes Howl:

"Dallas' blunt, brutal latest explores the mythic soul of the American West...through a female lens."
Booklist (Starred Review)

"Dallas delivers a sprawling and immersive story. Well-rounded characters, convincing period details, and a sumptuous setting make this sing. Readers will be hooked."
Publisher's Weekly

"Anybody who writes about a cowboy with a 'spotted devil horse' and a woman who 'loved him more than the sunrise' has a great story to tell. Where Coyotes Howl is addictive. Highly recommended!"
Paulette Jiles, New York Times bestselling author of News of the World

“What an extraordinary story done by a master storyteller. So many characters fully rendered, lives that grip the heart. I could feel the Wyoming wind in my face and smell the dust.”
—Francine Rivers, New York Times bestselling author of The Lady's Mine

"Dallas writes with a great sense of place and understanding of the harsh climate, isolation and loneliness women faced as Wyoming evolved in the early 20th century. This is not your traditional love story...it has far more grit and reality."
Candy Moulton, Executive Director, Western Writers of America

"Dallas’s poignant love story exposes authentic life on the brutal but beautiful western frontier."
Betsy Randolph, author and 2021-2022 President of Women Writing the West

"Paints an honest portrait of life on the Wyoming frontier in the early 20th Century, heartwarming, heartbreaking, and filled with the best and worst of human nature. This is the best Novel of the American West I've read since, well, the last Sandra Dallas novel I picked up."
Johnny D. Boggs, Western Writers Hall of Fame author of A Thousand Texas Longhorns

"Sandra Dallas is an American treasure. She knows the history of the American West its beauty and hardship -- like few other writers. That's why her fiction rings so true. Where Coyotes Howl is one of her best novels, a howling success."Tom "Dr. Colorado" Noel

Praise for Sandra Dallas:

"[Dallas is] also a Colorado literary pillar, having appraised nearly every Colorado book worth reading in recent years—and writing more than a few of them herself."The Denver Post

"Exhilarating and hard to resist."The Washington Post on Westering Women

“Putting down a Sandra Dallas novel is nearly impossible.” —Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado) on Prayers for Sale

“A born storyteller, Dallas excels not only at plot but also at peopling her novels with memorable individuals.” —Richmond Times Dispatch on True Sisters