Tall Tales Of Montana Homesteading And Beyond

Author : Thelma Van Hook Kirkish
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462899153
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tall Tales of Montana Homesteading and Beyond written by Thelma Van Hook Kirkish and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography and moving story of a remarkable lady, who is an avid horsewomen since the day she was born. Homesteading days in southeastern Montana on the prairie is about a strong hard working family surviving hardships and heartbreak including love along the way. The mode of transportation was usually a horse or horse and buggy. No electricity, inside plumbing or water just the light of the kerosene lamps. During the depression years the family made their own good times with many humorous stories and made the best of the bad. This story takes you to Missoula, Montana then to Grand Coulee Dam as it was being built then later to San Francisco during World War 11 where she raised her three teenaged daughters and then the fun began.

Author : Joseph Horvath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Montana Homesteading written by Joseph Horvath and published by . This book was released on 1978* with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nancy Quinn
Publisher : Hellgate Press
ISBN 13 : 9781555719920
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still West of Nowhere written by Nancy Quinn and published by Hellgate Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a mystique about the American West, with its beauty and sense of freedom, which reaches out to the rugged individualist in each of us and continues to beckon the hearts of aspiring pioneers. Do any of these traditional concepts of the Old West remain viable today? Is it possible to successfully blend city and country lifestyles? Find out by reading the true ongoing outdoor, wildlife, and survival adventures of Nancy Quinn and her family, modern day westerners who left the conveniences of urban comfort to face the dangers and hardships of life on a mountain in rural Montana. Written with the same style, humor, and perseverance that originated in Nancy's first book, the award winning Go West, Young Woman!, and continued in its popular sequel, Stay West, Young Woman!, her latest saga, Still West of Nowhere, recounts their most recent escapades as they continue to adapt to their wilderness homestead.

Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 1560374497
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Montana Women Homesteaders written by Sarah Carter and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By shedding light on Montana's first women homesteaders--determined 19th- and early 20th-century pioneers--Carter reveals inspiring stories filled with joy, tragedy, and redemption.

Author : Percy Wollaston
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140279156
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homesteading written by Percy Wollaston and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “His memories flow as naturally as his writing. . . . The reader is transported back to the day when a six-year-old stepped from the train into a new life.”—Smithsonian As a grown man, Percy Wollaston almost never spoke of the homestead where he grew up—until, in 1972, nearing the age of 70, he wrote this book about his childhood years. Lured by the government’s promise of land and the promotional literature of the railroads, six-year-old Percy Wollaston’s family left behind their home in North Dakota in 1909, heading West to “take up a claim." They settled near Ismay, Montana, where they attempted to carve a successful homestead out of the harsh plains. In compelling, plainspoken language, Wollaston tells of his pioneer family’s everyday existence—constructing a sod house, digging a well, trapping and hunting, courtships and funerals, an influenza epidemic, and a superstitious Irish neighbor. He also recalls the events of the world beyond Ismay, from the sinking of the Titanic, to Prohibition, to World War I, as well as the first sign of the town’s demise during the Great Depression. With a foreword by Jonathan Raban, who discovered this memoir while researching his award-winning Bad Land, Homesteading is a rich and vivid look, seen through the eyes of a hopeful young boy, at the forces that shaped the destiny of a family, a town, and the American West. “Vivid . . . plainly written and satisfyingly detailed.”—The Washington Post

Author : Belvina Williamson Bertino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780533019649
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scissorbills written by Belvina Williamson Bertino and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annick Smith
Publisher : World as Home
ISBN 13 : 9781571312136
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homestead written by Annick Smith and published by World as Home. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A passionate story, beautifully told." --ANNIE DILLARD In 1964 Annick Smith came to Montana with her husband, Dave, and their boys. In a fertile valley where meadows tip downward toward the Big Blackfoot River, they found what they had dreamed of: 163 acres of ranchland with a view of a creek, hills, and the Rattlesnake Mountains. The Montana of which Annick Smith writes in this spirited and generous book is the not-so-distant West of outlaws and pioneers, range inspectors and cattle thieves. From her friendship with Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It, to a tragedy that forced her to make her life anew in the open spaces of her home, Annick Smith's powerful spirit and her devotion to the land she loves shine through in a remarkable memoir.

Author : Charles Henry Nefzger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homesteading in Montana written by Charles Henry Nefzger and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cleaola Ernst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homesteading in Montana written by Cleaola Ernst and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Noemi Weygant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rimrock Land written by Noemi Weygant and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: