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In Loving Memory: Laurie Jameson (Laurie Wagner Buyer)

“The written word endures, leaving footprints across time that others may follow.”

Welcome to this special dedication page honoring the life, spirit, and literary contributions of Laurie Jameson, known also in the literary world as Laurie Wagner Buyer. More than just a talented writer, Laurie was a cherished friend, a valued partner of Sunday Morning Blogger, and an inspiring voice whose words continue to resonate with readers across the country.

Laurie’s journey as a writer was as authentic as her prose—rooted in lived experience, shaped by the Western landscapes she loved, and delivered with unflinching honesty. Her work spans poetry, memoir, fiction, and essays, each piece bearing her distinctive voice and profound connection to the natural world.

As my writing partner here at Sunday Morning Blogger, Laurie brought wisdom, creativity, and unwavering dedication to our shared passion. Her absence leaves an irreplaceable void, but her literary legacy offers enduring comfort and inspiration.

This page serves as both tribute and archive, collecting the breadth of Laurie’s published works and celebrating her significant contributions to literature. Through her books, poems, essays, and our collaborative work, Laurie’s spirit continues to speak to us—reminding us of the power of storytelling, the beauty of the natural world, and the profound connections we share as human beings.

Browse through her complete bibliography below, discover the themes that defined her work, and join us in honoring a remarkable writer whose words will forever echo across the western landscapes she so beautifully captured.

Memoir

  • When I Came West (Finalist for the ForeWord Review 2010 Book of the Year), University of Oklahoma Press, Spring 2010.
  • Spring’s Edge: A Ranch Wife’s Chronicles (Winner of the Beryl Markham Prize for Creative Nonfiction from Story Line Press, winner of the Colorado Council on the Arts Literature Artist Fellowship, and a finalist for the Colorado Book Award), University of New Mexico Press, April 2008.

Fiction

Poetry Books & Chapbooks

  • Cinch Up Your Saddle and Ride! (Ranch Verse), Western Trail Blazer, June 2011.
  • Accidental Voices (Poetry), Seven Oaks Publishing, Fall 2010.
  • A Haiku Photo Walk (Haiku & Photography) collaboration with Deborah Kunzie. November 7th, 2010
  • Infinite Possibilities:A Haiku Journal (Women’s Gift Book), Filter Press, September 2009 (Finalist for the Willa Cather Literary Award from Women Writing the West).
  • Across the High Divide, Ghost Road Press, Denver, Colorado, February 2006 (Winner of the Spur Award in Poetry from Western Writers of America.  Finalist for the Willa Cather Literary Award from Women Writing the West, Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Poet’s Prize, 2007)
  • Red Colt Canyon, Music Mountain Press, Westcliffe, Colorado, 1999 (Includes the Writer’s Digest Award  Winning Poem “Until I Run Out of Thread”)
  • Glass-Eyed Paint in the Rain, High Plains Press, Glendo, Wyoming, 1996 (Finalist for the Colorado Book  Award in Poetry, 1997).
  • Braintanning Buckskin:  A Lesson For Beginners, Dry Crik Press, Lemon Cove, California, 1996 (Poetry as an Art Tool Chapbook).
  • Blue Heron, Dry Crik Press, Lemon Cove, California, 1995 (Winner of the Dry Crik Chapbook Award).

Children’s Books

  • Little Dancing Fawn’s Tale of Christmas Joy, Snowy Creek Publishing, Fairplay, Colorado, 1999.

Writing (eBook)

  • Working with Words (Self-Editing Tips), e-book, Garlic Press Publishing, 2009.

Anthologies

  • “An Elevated View,” An Elevated View:Colorado Writers on Writing, edited by W. C. Jameson, Seven Oaks Publishing, Llano, TX, 2011.
  • “Cherry Red Winter”, On a June Afternoon”, “Cotyledon”, “Witness to a Death”, “Blizzard Night”, “Five Strands with Stays”, “Hay Meadow”, Open Range:Poetry of the Reimagined West, edited by  Laurie Wagner Buyer and W.C. Jameson, Ghost Road Press, Denver, CO, 2007.
  • “Red Fox, Wilderness and the West,” Hot Coffee and Cold Truth:Living and Writing the West, edited by W.C. Jameson, University of New Mexico Press, 2006.  (Finalist for the Colorado Book  Award, 2007).
  • “Patina,” Open Window:An Anthology of Poetry, Fiction and Creative Nonfiction, edited by Sonya Unrein, Ghost Road Press, 2007.  (Winner of the Colorado Book Award, 2007).
  • “Miss Lorena’s Nightshirt,” Please Stay on the Trail:A Collection of Colorado Fiction, edited by Matt Hudson, Black Ocean, Boston, MA, 2006.  (Finalist for the Colorado Book Award, 2007).
  • “Where There Are Wolves,” Comeback Wolves:Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home, edited by  Gary Wockner, SueEllen Campbell, Gregory McNamee, Johnson Books, Boulder, CO, 2005.  (Winner of the Colorado Book Award, 2006).
  • “Teammates,” Unbridled:The Western Horse in Fiction and Non-Fiction, edited by Michael Engelhard, Lyons Press, Guilford, Connecticut, 2005.
  • “His Horses,” Cowboy Poetry:The Reunion, Gibbs-Smith Publisher, Layton, Utah, 2004.
  • “Growing Tomatoes,”She Flies Without Wings:  How Horses Touch a Woman’s Soul, Mary D. Midkiff, Delacorte Press / Random House, New York, NY, 2001.
  • “There Were No Women,”Woven On The Wind, edited by Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis, Linda Hasselstrom, Houghton Mifflin Publishers, New York, NY, 2001.
  • “For Brandy at Age Twenty-One, Sammy Blue’s Rabbit Chasing Days, Horseback Through Snow,” Cowgirl Poetry, edited by Virginia Bennett, Gibbs Smith Publisher, Layton, Utah, 2001.
  • “The Gift of Water,” Charity, edited by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Red Rocks Press, New York, NY, 2001.
  • “When I Came West, Madge, Smell of Sage, Bareback, Letters, Wooing the Wanton Mare, Sunderance, Kneading Bread,” Cowboy Poetry Matters:From Abilene to the Mainstream, edited by Robert  McDowell, Story Line Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2000.
  • “Hanging in Balance,” Leaning Into the Wind:Women Write From The Heart Of The West, edited by Linda Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis, Houghton-Mifflin, New York, New York, 1997.
  • Graining the Mare:The Poetry Of Ranch Women, edited by Teresa Jordan, Gibbs-Smith, Layton, Utah, 1994.
  • Maverick Western Verse, edited by John Dofflemyer, Gibbs-Smith, Layton, Utah, 1994.
  • “Sego Lily, Thirty Nine,” Cowboy Love Poetry:Verse From The Heart Of The West,  edited by Paddy Calistro, Angel City Press, Santa Monica, California, 1994.     
  • The Cowgirl Companion, Gail Gilchriest, Hyperion, New York, New York, 1993.  

Periodicals

Women Out West, American Cowboy, Roundup Magazine, Mountain Gazette, Evergreen Living, American Western Ezine, Western Horseman, Horse and Horseman, Horse and Rider, Farm and Ranch Living, Cowboy Magazine, The Fence Post, Colorado Country Life, Colorado Central, Roundup Magazine, Senior Times, Cascade Horseman, Wyoming Rural Electric News, Kalispell Livestock Weekly News, The Backwoodsman, Great Falls Tribune, The SAC, Beef, Cow Country, Wyoming Stockman-Farmer, MSU Exponent

Journals and Reviews

In the Mist, Cimmaron Review, High Plains Register, Kansas City Voices, Open Windows, Writer’s Digest, Bloomsbury Review, Dry Crik Review, The Mighty Muse, Vietnam Generation, George William Review, Wyoming Writers, Rose’s Hope, Anthology of Country Poetry, WomanSpirit, College Poetry Review, World of Poetry, Word Weavers, Blue Unicorn, The American Muse, The Eagle’s Cry, The Western Pocket, Wish Women, Owen Wister Review, Valley Voices, Visions and Voices from the West, Poetry Today