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The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West
by Joyce Litz
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ISBN13: 9780826331205 
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Taken from the journals of a Victorian-era woman who followed her husband from New York to a small town in Montana, these reflections include birth control and child rearing, gambling and prostitution, education and health care in the Mountain West.
Book News Annotation:
Drawing on her grandmother's writings, a native Montanan now living
in New Mexico traces her early career as a New York newspaperwoman
and her struggles with Victorian-era married life and other hardships
in central Montana. Photographs show Lillian Weston Hazen (1865-1949)
active on her ranch.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Synopsis:
This true story of a Victorian-era young woman who follows her husband to a small town with the improbable name of Gilt Edge, Montana, will remind readers of Wallace Stegners Angle of Repose, the classic novel of a womans life in the Mountain West. As a young girl, Lillian Weston, the authors grandmother, aspired to be a concert pianist. However, as a young woman in turn-of-the-century New York, she became a newspaper columnist. Her marriage to Frank Hazen took her west in 1899, ending her career as a newspaperwoman. She turned her writing skills to journals, diaries, stories, and poems, which traced her familys life on a frontier that was no longer unspoiled.
The Hazens endured brutal winters and dry summers and endeavored to raise cattle and chickens by trial and error. Lillian was an assiduous diarist who included details of her turbulent marriage challenged by Franks bad business deals. The details of birth control and child rearing, gambling and prostitution, education and health care are all part of this story, offering glimpses into everyday life that often go unreported in the larger story of western expansion.
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Kathleen Frommelt, January 8, 2007 (view all comments by Kathleen Frommelt)
This book about Lillian Weston Hazen will appeal to grown up girls who loved the heroines of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Willa Cather.
Joyce Litz's meticulous research not only into her grandmother's diaries but also into such arcane information as weather patterns leads to fascinating insights about the micro experience of settlers. She showed how temporarily high water levels led pioneers to settle on land only to find they were fighting a back breaking but ultimately losing battle with nature. The story of the West is as much a story of risk taking and failure as it is of hard work and success.
This book was many years in the writing. The inspiration was the inheritance of a trunk full of her grandmother's life long diaries by a remarkable granddaughter who, despite three children and a career, worked toward authorship of this book for decades.
Litz's great grandfather Edw. Payson Weston was a phenomen, a world class pedestrian. Lillian seemed destined for an equally brilliant life as a pianist, world traveler and columnist in New York newspapers. She was also lovely looking She married badly and rather late to an irritable young man who looked good on paper. Instead of pursuing her own talents, she set out on the adventure of being the wife of a mining accountant in Montana and eventually matriarch of a struggling farm family in Montana.
Joyce Litz inherited her great grandfather's stamina, the writer's soul of her grandmother's and added her own perserverence. She comes across as a wise and thoughtful woman whose own life experience informs this book.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780826331205
- Subtitle:
- One Woman's West
- Author:
- Publisher:
- University of New Mexico Press
- Location:
- Albuquerque
- Subject:
- Women
- Subject:
- United States - 19th Century/Old West
- Subject:
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Subject:
- Montana
- Subject:
- Regional Subjects - West
- Subject:
- Pioneers
- Subject:
- Ranch life
- Subject:
- Women pioneers
- Subject:
- Giltedge Region
- Series Volume:
- Nr. 8672
- Publication Date:
- April 2004
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 261
- Dimensions:
- 9.26x6.38x1.02 in. 1.18 lbs.
