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Bezig met laden... When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood (Women in the West)door Margaret Bell
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Mary Clearman Blew writes a most informative intro to this book and its publication history. I found Bell's story after reading Blew's own Montana memoir, All But the Waltz, which I enjoyed immensely. Bell, who was born at the end of the nineteenth century, tells the story of a childhood filled with hardship, heartbreak and abuse. Her own father left when she was very small. Her stepfather, a real nogoodnik, hardly fills that void. He is abusive to Bell, her mother and her stepsisters from the minute he enters the picture. Her mother, literally worked to death, died in her twenties, leaving young Peggy to look after the three younger girls. Beatings and hunger become "ordinary" to Peggy. When Hedge, her stepfather, begins to sexually molest her, she is so innocent that she has no words to describe what is happening, and simply endures it. In her teens, she finally ends up in a convent school in Washington state, where she tries to stay and become a nun, but her health is too poor, so she returns to ranch life with her kind uncle and her grandmother. Always handy with horses and cattle, she regains her health and begins to thrive. This is never a happy story, but it is an important one, and a richly detailed addition to the role and contributions of women on the western frontier of our country. I salute the late Margaret Bell and I thank Mary Clearman Blew for finally bringing us Bell's story. I would recommend this book highly to anyone interested in the field of women's studies. Hell, I'd recommend it to anyone who just wants to read a good story. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Lost for almost half a century and never before published, When Montana and I Were Young is a remarkable primary account of a child's life in the early part of the twentieth century. Margaret Bell (1888-1982) was a rancher and horse breaker whose memoir tells the story of a frontier childhood on the high plains of Montana and Canada. Hers was not a typical childhood. Bell was barely seven when her mother died, and her stepfather, Hedge Wolfe, moved Bell and her three younger half-sisters far from their nurturing grandmother to the Canadian plains and a life of extreme poverty, hardship, and abuse. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)978.6History and Geography North America Western U.S. MontanaLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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