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Book SynopsisNannie T. Alderson's memoir recounts the life of a transplanted, southern woman who, after marrying in 1883, finds herself learning to run a ranch in eastern Montana near the mouth of Lame Deer Creek.
Trade Review“
A Bride Goes West still has much to tell us about white women’s resilience and community during Montana’s pioneer era. [Alderson’s] narrative provides an alternative to overly romanticized male accounts of frontier life and calls attention to the overlooked stories and histories of the eastern region of the state.”—Randi Lynn Tanglen, coeditor of
Teaching Western American Literature“After reading, as a very young woman, the Western American classic
A Bride Goes West, what a great pleasure in my later years to hear Nannie Alderson’s voice again in this new edition and to reflect on the many changes that have occurred in the West since Nannie’s time, the time of my first reading, and the present.”—Mary Clearman Blew, author of
All but the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family“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 . . . as [one of] the two best books pertaining to ranch life by women with a woman’s point of view dominating.”—J. Frank Dobie
“A charming vignette of ranching life in Montana during the mid-1880s.”—
ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
