
Tomboy Bride
A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
Harriet Fish Backus(Author)
West Winds Press
Published on 17. January 1980
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-87108-512-2 (ISBN)
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Description
Harriet Backus writes about her life as an assayer's wife and true pioneer of the West with heart-felt emotion and vivid detail. Sharing her amusing and often challenging experiences as a new bride in the high San Juan Mountains where the Tomboy Mine operated above Telluride, Colorado, she paints a poignant picture of the people, and the life centered around silver mining where most of the book takes place. It is a skillfully written account from a women's perspective in a rough and tumble mining town that has made this book a classic for women's studies. Harriet's life followed her husband George's career which took them many places beyond the San Juan Mountains including the rugged coast of British Columbia, and the mountainous mining town of Elk City, Idaho and back to Colorado's Leadville. Although both Hattie and George were from the San Francisco bay area where they eventually retired, her heart never quite left the rugged mountain trails of the high San Juans of Colorado.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Portland
United States
Publishing group
Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-87108-512-2 (9780871085122)
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Harriet Fish Backus
Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition
One Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West
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