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Tomboy Bride: One Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West (50th Anniversary Edition)
Tomboy Bride One Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West - 50th Anniversary Edition Author:Harriet Fish Backus Tomboy Bride presents a first-hand account of a young pioneer woman and her life in rough and tumble mining towns of the Old West. — In 1906 at the age of twenty, Harriet Fish hopped on a train from Oakland, California to the San Juan Mountains of Colorado in search of a new life as the bride of assayer George Backus. He was her ... more »High Schoold sweetheart. Together, the couple ventured forth to discover mining town life at the turn of the twentieth century. They needed to adjust to all the hardships that come with that life: limited water, rationed food supplies, lack of medical care, difficulty in travel, avalanches and many more things. As she and George move from one area to another, Harriet paints a poignant picture of a world centered around mining, sharing amusing and often challenging experiences. She was an optimistic person and enjoyed many of her experiences and her new friends.« less