{"product_id":"a-bride-goes-west-paperback-softback-9781496235077","title":"A Bride Goes West (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496235077","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Bride Goes West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNannie T. Alderson (Author), Helena Huntington Smith (Author), Jeanie Alderson (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496235077\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 June 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e290 pages, 22 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 13.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Bride Goes West\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eTeaching Western American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“After reading, as a very young woman, the Western American classic \u003ci\u003eA Bride Goes West\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eAll but the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Among hundreds of books written by and about range men, there are hardly a dozen valid ones concerning women. I pick \u003ci\u003eA Bride Goes West \u003c\/i\u003e. . . as [one of] the two best books pertaining to ranch life by women with a woman’s point of view dominating.”-J. Frank Dobie\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A charming vignette of ranching life in Montana during the mid-1880s.”-\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBlizzards, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600260854040,"sku":"9781496235077","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-bride-goes-west-paperback-softback-9781496235077","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}