https://www.markspragg.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621e6f2593a7302e2258a782/36c79e4a-6827-4e6d-a615-163591d1b539/rivers.jpg Home Mark Spragg grew up on the oldest dude ranch in Wyoming, a place of unrelenting winds, pitiless blizzards, fierce rivers, and the men who work there have to be tough to survive. He writes lyrically of this world, its animals - horses, bears, elk - and of its people, in particular his parents and John, an old cowboy who became his mentor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621e6f2593a7302e2258a782/1646168312607-CBPQ41PVVN2OYSJUIFF6/stone.jpg Home The story of the lifelong friendship between two men and their love for one woman who eludes them. When she leaves her husband for a new life, the two men follow her on a journey across the American West that forces truths and tests the extremes of love and loyalty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621e6f2593a7302e2258a782/1646168401321-LF3PL268DNTDO64KFQFV/life.jpg Home After escaping an abusive boyfriend, Jean Gilkyson and her ten-year-old daughter Griff have nowhere left to go except Ishawooa, Wyoming, where Jean's estranged father-in-law, Einar, still blames her for the death of his son. Though Einar isn’t glad to see either of them, Griff falls in love with his sprawling ranch and quiet way of life, as she slowly gets to know his old friend Mitch, the cats that lurk in the barn at milking time, and finally the grandfather she had lost for so many years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621e6f2593a7302e2258a782/1ff908ac-94bb-4fa6-ac50-1a10b3aa17fb/bone.jpg Home At eighty, Einar Gilkyson has lost his share of loved ones, but still finds his house full. His grandaughter Griff, has dropped out of college to look after him, and his long-absent sister has returned home from Chicago. But Ishawooa, Wyoming, is far from bucolic, and troubles begin to boil when the sheriff finds a man murdered in a meth lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621e6f2593a7302e2258a782/1472a5dc-2b62-4248-b4e6-133f7777283c/Mark.jpg Home - Mark Spragg is the author of Where Rivers Change Direction, and the novels The Fruit of Stone, An Unfinished Life, and Bone Fire. All four were top-ten Book Sense selections. His work has been translated into eleven languages. photo credit: Neil O. 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