Red Walls and Homesteads

By Helena Thomas Rubottom

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0960583432
• ISBN13: 9780960583430
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Frontier Publishing
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.

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Red Walls and Homesteads

This family chronicle was written by Mrs. Rubottom (better known as Betty) in 1972. Five copies were made for relatives. The few people who were priviledged to read Betty's book were impressed by the story - authentic and descriptive of a time in our Western history that will never be repeated - and they persuaded Betty to have it published. This reads like a novel, but it is history as seen through the eyes of a perceptive and sensitive girl. The courage of Mother May through her many "walks with worry" was exceptional even among pioneer women. May begins the story with recollections of her life in Wisconsin, Nebraska, and finally to Wyoming in 1888. The child, Betty, growing up on the homestead at EK Mountain, was isolated by the Red Wall from the rest of the world. Her older brothers came by as they could from their jobs on neighboring ranches. Her world was peopled by cowboys, sheepherders, outlaws, and homesteaders. She recounts their adventures as they affected the family. Betty never knew that she was "deprived" until she overheard an older sister talking about her. But when it was necessary for Betty to leave home periodically for school and work, and, finally, for marriage, she never lost her love for and her loyalty to the valley between EK Mountain and the Red Wall, and the memory of other struggling homesteaders and friends. --- from book's back cover