Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight

Ursula K. Le Guin has an uncanny understanding of the magical. In this story, she is particularly adept at exploring the magic of animals as she shows us their wisdom, follies, spirits and personalities. The animals seem like people - just as they do to the little girl who finds herself living among them after Coyote rescues her in the wilderness. We learn, with the girl, that they are the "Old People," those who used to live freely on the earth and who now must maintain their lifeways ca…