Acknowledgments
THANKS TO ALL THE FRIENDS WHO READ VERSIONS OF THIS book and offered helpful comments. And to my editor and publisher, Shaye Areheart, for her good humor and incisive suggestions. And to Ken Watt, who owned a parrot named Benny and probably does not remember me, but I remember Ken and his Benny stories from a California evening nearly thirty years ago. Much gratitude is directed toward my agent, David Vigliano, who not only marketed the book, but also made several good suggestions about improving it.
About the Author
ROBERT JAMES WALLER lives quietly with his wife, Linda, and their dogs and cats on a small farm in the Texas Hill Country, where he pursues his long-standing interests in writing, photography, music, economics, and mathematics. In the Texas evenings, he wades remote Hill Country streams, fly-fishing for bass and trout.
Other Books by
Robert James Waller
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Border Music
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
The Bridges of Madison County
Old Songs in a New Caf: Selected Essays
A Thousand Country Roads
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend
Just Beyond the Firelight
One Road Is Good Enough: Essays by Robert James Waller
Copyright 2005 by Robert James Waller
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Published in the United States by Shaye Areheart Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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SHAYE AREHEART BOOKS and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Waller, Robert James, 1939–
High plains tango : a novel / Robert James Waller.
1. City and town life—Fiction. 2. South Dakota—Fiction. 3. Drifters—Fiction. I. Title
PS3573.A4347H54 2005
813'.54—dc22 2004027288
Map copyright 2005 by Sophie Kittredge
eISBN: 978-0-307-23830-6
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