First published in 1929, Anne Ellis's "story of her girlhood and young womanhood in the mining camps of Colorado is interesting from the first word to the last. It throws a vivid light on the boom towns of the West [of the 1880s and '90s]. This is no labored narrative, but a succession of lively anecdotes about vividly realized people ... Scattered throughout the book in one salty anecdote after another is the most veracious and beautiful portrait of the American pioneer woman I have read."--New York Herald Tribune Books.
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