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...here's the sound of Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Scribner; 285 pages; $25), her new collection of short stories: "Pake knew a hundred dirt road shortcuts, steering them through scabland and slope country, in and out of the tiger shits..." (the reader fumbles this one but is swept on) "... over the tawny plain still grooved with pilgrim wagon ruts, into early darkness and the first storm laying down black ice, hard orange dawn, the world smoking, snaking dust devils on bare dirt, heat boiling out of the sun until the paint on the truck hood curled, ragged webs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Strange Ground | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...from the depths of a Model A which rattled as if it had been to Pike's Peak and busted. Louis was a years character; he had twelve children and eleven years of marriage. "One each year of wedlock," he said, ignoring the first born. Louis had a hapa-Pake, hapa-Hawaiian wife; she had had another husband, a Jap, whom she married for his washing machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/1/1937 | See Source »

...clock on Saturday. First round matches must be played by Thursday, April 24. Entry books will be found at Harry Cowles' Shop or at Leavitt and Pelice's. Devens, p. 9 3 2 2 5 1 MacHale, p. 9 1 1 3 0 0 Pake, p. 3 0 1 0 0 1 Totals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Tourney | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Pake and Klevenow Are Back

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDDLEBURY IS OUT TO TROUNCE CRIMSON | 10/11/1924 | See Source »

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