Pam Houston is the author of several books, including Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country. She teaches writing at the University of California at Davis and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. She lives in Colorado, near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
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Serious illness gave our writer an urgent need for physical and spiritual rebirth. She found both by bonding with a unique riding breed that seems touched by Viking spirit.
The end was coming for Roany, a strong and beautiful horse who’d been at the center of Pam Houston’s life for 25 years. What she wanted for him was simple: a peaceful exit, lifted by the touch of human hands.
At 55, writer Pam Houston finally let herself fall.
Memorable lives combine tough choices, an adventurous spirit, hard work, and luck—and who knows where any of it comes from? For our writer, the wellspring was a Colorado spread that she was barely able to buy in 1993. It became her escape from a violent childhood and the magical ground that changed her life.