| When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bell, Margaret (Author), Blew, Mary Clearman (Editor), Blew, Mary Clearman (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0803262140 ISBN-13: 9780803262140 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: Lost for almost half a century and never before published, When Montana and I Were Young is a remarkable primary account of a child's life in the early part of the twentieth century. Margaret Bell (1888-1982) was a rancher and horse breaker whose memoir tells the story of a frontier childhood on the high plains of Montana and Canada. Hers was not a typical childhood. Bell was barely seven when her mother died, and her stepfather, Hedge Wolfe, moved Bell and her three younger half-sisters far from their nurturing grandmother to the Canadian plains and a life of extreme poverty, hardship, and abuse. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Women in the West |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.54" W x 8.5" (0.75 lbs) 251 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Geographic Orientation - Montana - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 |
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| Publisher Description: Lost for almost half a century and never before published, When Montana and I Were Young is a remarkable primary account of a child's life in the early part of the twentieth century. Margaret Bell (1888-1982) was a rancher and horse breaker whose memoir tells the story of a frontier childhood on the high plains of Montana and Canada. Hers was not a typical childhood. Bell was barely seven when her mother died, and her stepfather, Hedge Wolfe, moved Bell and her three younger half-sisters far from their nurturing grandmother to the Canadian plains and a life of extreme poverty, hardship, and abuse. Mary Clearman Blew is a professor of English at the University of Idaho in Moscow. She is the author of Balsamroot and Bone-Deep in Landscape. Lee Rostad is the author of Honey Wine and Hunger Root. |
