ROCKY MOUNTAINS
A BRIDE GOES WEST
“Among hundreds of books written by and about range men, there are hardly a dozen valid ones concerning women. I pick A Bride Goes West and Agnes Morley Cleaveland’s No Life for a Lady [also a Bison Book] as the two best books pertaining to ranch life by women with a woman’s point of view dominating.”—J. Frank Dobie
THIS IS NOT THE IVY LEAGUE
Mary Clearman Blew’s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not the Ivy League is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman—pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the 1950s, persisting in her pursuit of an education, trailed by a reluctant husband and small children through graduate school, and finally entering the job market with a PhD in English only to find a whole new set of pressures and prejudices.
An Ongoing Attempt to Understand this Place: An Interview with Mary Clearman Blew
University of Montana Launches Initiative to Support Women
BITTERROOT
“One Salish-Kootenai woman’s journey, this memoir is a heart-wrenching story of finding family and herself, and of a particularly horrific time in Native history. It is a strong and well-told narrative of adoption, survival, resilience, and is truthfully revealed.”—Luana Ross (Bitterroot Salish), codirector of Native Voices Documentary Film at the University of Washington and author of Inventing the Savage
When Native American Children Are Adopted By White Families, It Isn’t Always A Happy Ending
THE SOLACE OF STONES
“The Solace of Stones is intimate, eloquent, and, at times, pierces the heart. Julie Riddle is a natural storyteller, and her tale of innocence, loss, and a family’s log cabin in the Montana mountains is beautifully revealed in exquisite, sensory prose.”—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire
Best trails in Cabinet Mountains Wilderness
GIVE ME EIGHTY MEN
“Thoroughly researched and very well written, Shannon D. Smith’s book joins the works of other recent writers, such as Sherry L. Smith, who have found in the writings of officers’ wives not only important chronicles of the post-Civil War West, but the testimony to the growing importance of women in the American public sphere.”—Ronald Schultz, Great Plains Quarterly
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