The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West

by Joyce Litz

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 Stegner's Angle of Repose, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826331203
• ISBN13: 9780826331205
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Little House and Little Women for Grownup Pioneer Girls

If you grew up gobbling down books about inspiring, independent women with pioneer spirit, you will enjoy reading this loving and learned biography of the author's grandmother born in 1865. Ms. Litz' research fleshes out the economic and social circumstances only slightly apparent in the books of our youth. Lillian Weston Hazen was a successful syndicated columnist in New York City in the late 1900s when she married a promising, rich Dartmouth graduate. The Depression of 1893 bankrupted them and dried up job prospects in the East. The only position her husband could find was bookkeeper for a mining company in a rough frontier town called Gilt Edge near Lewistown, Montana. Despite tremendous physical hardships and economic setbacks, they made a life for themselves and a surviving son where many were ground down and dropped out. Despite heavy ranch labor, Lillian carved out time to write and published in Scribners and some farming journals. Her lasting legacy will turn out to be the trunk of diaries and clippings that Joyce Litz found in 1949 following her death.