A Bride Goes West

By: Nannie T. Alderson, Helena Huntington Smith, Jeanie Alderson (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 1 June 2023

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290 Pages

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Blizzards, 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.

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.

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"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."-Choice

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