PRAIRIE TAILS

About the Book

PRAIRIE TAILS is a volume featuring citizens who reside, work, love, scorn, struggle, fight, mourn and question in America’s plains country. These are characters not of the West, the Southwest, or even the Midwest. They inhabit an environment boasting of flat land to the horizon, wide farms, thick intractable woods, small towns, big cities, large ideas and cussedness. Any resemblance these souls may have to real people would be purely magical.

About the Author

Stanley W. Beesley’s Vietnam: The Heartland Remembers (University of Oklahoma Press and Berkley Publishing Group) was the Junior Scholastic Magazine’s Book Club Selection for young readers on the American experience in Vietnam. A Dallas Morning News’ Non-Fiction Book. “This is a hard, strong book.”- New York City Tribune. “Highly recommended.” – Publisher’s Weekly. “This is a dark walk down Memory Lane. Take the walk.” – Topeka Capital. Sweetwater, Oklahoma, a collection of short stories by Stanley W. Beesley, was named the University of Oklahoma Master’s Thesis of the Year, 2003. “Beesley is a strong, talented, witty writer whose work is likely to show up in anthologies and in future textbooks.”- Sunday Oklahoman. The Last Man to Hit .400: A Love Story, a novel, was released by Pegasus Books in 2017. Beesley’s fiction has appeared in such periodicals as October Hill Magazine, O Dark Thirty, Parhelion Literary Review, Poydras Review, Seattle Star, and Voiceprint Magazine.