Bibliograph

Life on Muskrat Creek, a homestead family in Wyoming, Ethel Waxham Love and J. David Love ; edited by Frances Love Froidevaux and Barbara Love

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Life on Muskrat Creek, a homestead family in Wyoming, Ethel Waxham Love and J. David Love ; edited by Frances Love Froidevaux and Barbara Love

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Life on Muskrat Creek

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1006308985

Responsibility statement

Ethel Waxham Love and J. David Love ; edited by Frances Love Froidevaux and Barbara Love

Sub title

a homestead family in Wyoming

Summary

Composed of writings by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who married Scottish rancher John Love and went to live on his ranch in 1910, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a family's day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early twentieth-century Wyoming. Readers will learn about the family's persistence despite a variety of challenges, including a near-fatal bout with Spanish influenza, life-threatening encounters with livestock and wildlife, as well as disastrous episodes of fires, floods, blizzards, and drought. The book's depiction of more ordinary events is equally engaging: Ethel describes her adjustment to married life and raising children with little support from neighbors, women friends, or a wider family network; David recounts growing up in a wild and remote place where there was no local school, but where he learned from the land, his parents, and the hardy people who stopped by the ranch. The two perspectives create a lively and provocative record of western history--back cover

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