Bride Goes West
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A01=Helena Huntington Smith
A01=Nannie T. Alderson
American History
American West
Author_Helena Huntington Smith
Author_Nannie T. Alderson
Blizzard
book about ranch life
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Drought
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frontier life
Gender Studies
History
Inclement Weather
Memoir
Miles City
Montana
Montana history
Montana's pioneer era
Northern Cheyenne
ranching life in Montana
Western Ranching
Women in the West
Women's Studies
Women’s Studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781496235077
- Dimensions: 133 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2023
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Blizzards, droughts, predators, unpredictable markets, and a host of other calamities tell the history of the daily struggles of Western ranching, and perhaps no one has told the story better than Nannie T. Alderson, a transplanted southern woman who married a cowboy and found herself in eastern Montana trying to build a ranching business a one-hundred-mile horse-and-buggy ride from the nearest town. Unfamiliar with even the most basic household chores, she soon found herself washing, cooking, riding, cleaning, branding, and a host of other ranch activities for which her upbringing had not prepared her.
Although Nannie Alderson and her husband, Walt, would eventually move to Miles City, her story of the rigors of ranch life serves as the preeminent account of Montana ranch life and culture. This edition features a foreword from Nannie’s great-grandniece, Jeanie Alderson, who ranches in the same area.
Although Nannie Alderson and her husband, Walt, would eventually move to Miles City, her story of the rigors of ranch life serves as the preeminent account of Montana ranch life and culture. This edition features a foreword from Nannie’s great-grandniece, Jeanie Alderson, who ranches in the same area.
Nannie T. Alderson was born in Union, Virginia (later West Virginia), in 1860 and grew up in a genteel southern family. In 1883 she married Walt Alderson, a cowboy she had met while visiting relatives in Kansas, and they moved to Montana to start a cattle ranch. Helena Huntington Smith was a journalist and contributor to the Saturday Evening Post, Reader’s Digest, and other magazines. Her books include We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher and The War on Powder River. Jeanie Alderson is the great-grandniece of Nannie Alderson and is a fourth-generation rancher from Birney, Montana.
