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  —Milwaukee Journal

  “Beautifully written and funny.”

  —Cleveland Plain Dealer

  “These are adventure stories that would make Hemingway jealous.”

  —Arizona Republic

  “Houston writes with a spareness perfectly matched to the perilous psychological and geographic wilderness through which her characters roam.”

  —Miami Herald

  “Houston’s stories are a joy to read. . . . Each story opens windows into new experiences, to reveal new ways of seeing.”

  —Josephine Humphreys

  also by

  PAM HOUSTON

  Deep Creek

  A Little More About Me

  Contents May Have Shifted

  Sight Hound

  Waltzing the Cats

  Copyright © 1992 by Pam Houston

  All rights reserved

  First published as a Norton paperback 2005, reissued 2019

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

  Houston, Pam.

  Cowboys are my weakness : stories / Pam Houston.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 0-393-03077-6

  I. Title.

  PS3558.08725C68 1992

  813'.54—dc20

  ISBN 978-0-393-35687-8 pbk.

  ISBN 978-0-393-07753-7 (ebk.)

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