Deanna Dickinson McCall
Rancher, Author, Poet

2019&2022 Wrangler Award!


Books and CDs from Deanna
Deanna's books and cds are available directly from her, signed and mailed to you or to someone you love. Please email her at dmcattle@yahoo.com if you prefer to pay via check rather than paypal below.






Rough Patches II
With Rough Patches II, the follow-up to her acclaimed story collection Rough Patches, author Deanna
Dickinson McCall has assembled another powerful collection centered on female protagonists in the
ranch country of the contemporary American West. Shaped by challenging circumstances as well as the
equally demanding landscapes they inhabit, her characters exhibit a brand of strength instantly
recognizable to readers fortunate enough to know true “women of the West.”



Finalist in the
2016
NM/AZ Book Awards
Finalist for
Western Music Association
Poetry Book of The Year






Rough Patches
Deanna Dickinson McCall has assembled a powerful collection of short stories centered on women in the historical and contemporary American West. Shaped by challenging circumstances as well as the equally demanding landscapes they inhabit, her characters exhibit a brand of strength instantly recognizable to readers fortunate enough to know true “women of the West.” Against long odds, McCall’s protagonists courageously stare down adversity – sexism, illness and the unimaginable dangers of both the frontier era and modern-day ranch country.
Rough Patches was named as a Finalist for the WILLA Award and received a Silver Will Rogers Medallion.
with cover art by JaNeil Anderson



Finalist in the
2013
NM/AZ Book Awards
Mustang Spring
Stories and Poems
“[Deanna Dickinson McCall’s] wisdom is hard-earned; her stories are not about the “romance of Western life.” Characters know heat and hurt, cold and loss, danger, heartbreak and toil. But, like the writer, they don’t know “can’t.” Perseverance is required for survival. When there is humor, it is wry, ironic, a way of coping with ever-present challenges of ranching life.” – Margo Metegrano, Center for Western & Cowboy Poetry
Now with new cover art by
JaNeil Anderson



I'm another title


poems written and recited by Deanna
Tracks include:
Riding
Sacramento Mtn Spirits
Ice Flowers
Rain
Advice
Cow Country Code
Windy Ridge
Death at Cornudas
The Hired Hand
Old Corrals
The Leather is Red
Not Work
When the Day is Over


2014
WMA
Poetry Book
of the Year
RIDING won the
2012 Academy of Western Artists award
for Best Cowboy Poetry CD and has been nominated Best Cowboy Poetry CD by Western Music Association.
Cowboys&Indians magazine says, "...her prose and poems convey the no-frills, stoic observations of cowboys and cowgirls."
Mustang Spring was rated by NV Magazine as "A must read" for 2012.
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