Linda Hasselstrom
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Campbell County High School, Gillette, Wyoming
I. Personal and Professional Life
Linda Hasselstrom is really brilliant lady who has many different talents. Linda lives in Western South Dakota. She works on a ranch. She is one of those hard working girls. During her life she has won a lot of awards for her work, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry, the first woman to win a Western American Writer award, and a South Dakota Council literature fellowship. Linda writes a lot of different works. Linda is an essayist, a working ranch lady, and a poet.
A lot of people have recommended her books. Her books are graceful peaceful and really interesting in a sense. People all over the world have complimented her on her books. She also writes poetry. People say that she has a gift from God to write. Linda is hardworking, caring, and some one that takes a lot of pride in her work. This woman is a great role model for young women just getting started. Some people hope that she will continue writing for many years.
II. Literary Works
Bison: Monarch of the Plains (Published 1998)
The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection (Published 1996)
Feels Like Far: A Ranchers life on the Great Plains (Published 1999)
Going Over East (Published 1993)
Journal of a Mountain Man (Published 1998)
Land Circle (Published 1993)
Leaning into the Wind (Published 1997)
Roadside History of South Dakota (Published 1994)
Windbreak (Published 1987)
Bitter Creek Junction (Published 1999)
Caught by One Wing: Poems (Published 1991)
Dakota Bones (Published 1992)
This essay was submitted by a student of Nathel Coca, a teacher at Campbell Country High School in Gillette, Wyoming.