Tall Tales of Montana Homesteading and Beyond

Tall Tales of Montana Homesteading and Beyond

Author: Thelma Van Hook Kirkish

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-09-06

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1462899153

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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.


Hattie Big Sky

Hattie Big Sky

Author: Kirby Larson

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0385733135

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Dancing at the Rascal Fair

Dancing at the Rascal Fair

Author: Ivan Doig

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1439124949

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The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country.


Montana Memories

Montana Memories

Author: Juanell Moore

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2009-06-08

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1467057118

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As a New York journalist, Hayden Powell got caught up in a dangerous drug conspiracy. His wife had committed suicide because of it and he became a wanted man. He fled his notoriety, changed his name and became anonymous as a ranch hand on a dude ranch in remote Montana. He hadn't figured on Dana O'Neal. Thrust together in the confines of a few thousand acres, they work hard to deny growing feelings for each other. But can she be trusted with what she knows about Dow Hayden?


Girl from the Gulches

Girl from the Gulches

Author: Mary Ronan

Publisher: Montana Historical Society

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780917298974

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An account of one woman's life in the West during the second half of the nineteenth century from growing up on the Montana mining frontier to her ascent to young womanhood on a farm in southern California.