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By Margaret Ronan,Ellen Baumler

ISBN-10: 0917298977

ISBN-13: 9780917298974

A coated wagon on a dim street, the promise of a protracted trip, and the sweetness of what lay forward stuffed the shadowy areas of Mary Sheehan Ronan’s earliest stories. by the point she used to be a married girl in her twenties, she used to be a well-seasoned pioneer, having crossed many of the nation and retraced her steps again throughout a 3rd of it. during this hugely readable, interesting account, Ronan tells the tale of 1 woman’s lifestyles within the West throughout the moment half the 19th century.

This special memoir remembers the younger girl’s trip around the nice Plains, her early life at the Colorado and Montana mining frontiers, her ascent to younger womanhood on a farm in southern California, her stories as a pupil in a l. a. convent institution, her go back to Montana as a bride, and her lifestyles at the Flathead Indian Reservation as spouse of the Indian agent. The excitement of a forbidden sled trip, the creaking of the hangman’s rope, her father giving the final in their water to his death mule—these issues Ronan describes with vibrant readability. Ably edited and annotated, woman from the Gulches bargains a different viewpoint that could be a pleasure to read.

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