We are a husband and wife, editor and graphic designer of Open Range, and decided on a publishing venture because strapped university presses could not risk a large and expensive volume of poetry, a notoriously slow seller in any case, and folk poetry at that, with its whiff of the unwashed. Aside from starting our own business, all the other paths to publication seemed to require compromising the quality of a limited edition. To finance the production we consigned a long-held and beloved collection of Western Americana to the auction block. If you, the public, validate our contention that Kiskaddon's work deserves such a setting, by buying out the limited edition fairly quickly, we intend to reprint in a less deluxe "trade edition" that will be affordable to many who may want the book, but are unable to stand the steep price of this limited edition.

Bill Siems & Dawn Holladay

TO ORDER YOUR NUMBERED COPY OF "OPEN RANGE" ($125)
OR "SHORTY'S YARNS" ($14.95/$29.95), PLEASE SEND A CHECK (ADD $3.50 PER BOOK FOR SHIPPING) TO:

Old Night Hawk Press
2521 S Hatch Street, Spokane, WA 99203

OR CALL: 509-868-8402