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Buffalo Coat (1944) is Carol Ririe Brink's novelized account of events in Moscow, Idaho around the turn of the century. Brink's work details the yearning lives of women and men who feel not quite in tune with their town's spirit, as it traces the rivalries of several town doctors and their visions of life.

Carol Ririe Brink (1895-1981) was born in Moscow, the child of one of the families whose history is adapted in Buffalo Coat. An author of many children's books (including the Newbery Medal-winning Caddie Woodlawn), she also wrote an Idaho trilogy for adults, Buffalo Coat, Strangers in the Forest, and Snow in the River.

Honey in the Horn (1935), a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by H. L. Davis, tells of the lives of Oregon pioneers. With realistic and colorful detail and rough humor, the work describes the quirky individuality and essential isolation of various frontier types of men and women, as it describes the search for a suspected murderer and the yearning relationship between a young man and a gypsy-like horse seller's daughter.