A Hard Won Life: A Boy on His Own on the Montana Frontier
Based on the hand-written memoir of Fred Van Blaricom, this true story recounts a life of hardship and hope in the Montana Territory during the late 1800s. Told in Fred�s affable voice and rich with historical detail, A Hard Won Life is a coming-of-age story packed with adventures and grounded in the remarkable lives of the earliest homesteaders�men and women�of the Lower Yellowstone. Meet young Teddy Roosevelt, famed buffalo hunter Vic Smith, saloon owners, devious outlaws, and persistent sheriffs. Working as a cowboy, young Freddie broke horses, helped catch a horsethief, survived the cattle-killing winter of 1886, and at age ten rode alone 100 miles to work a season on a ranch in the Dakota Territories. Fred�s was a life of struggle against many obstacles, but he overcame them or abided them with no complaint. As he himself put it: �The hero was throwed, but the horse was tamed.� Meticulously researched and superbly written, A Hard Won Life is a tale of bravery, determination, and one boy�s embodiment of the spirit of Montana.
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A Hard Won Life: A Boy on His Own on the Montana Frontier
Based on the hand-written memoir of Fred Van Blaricom, this true story recounts a life of hardship and hope in the Montana Territory during the late 1800s. Told in Fred�s affable voice and rich with historical detail, A Hard Won Life is a coming-of-age story packed with adventures and grounded in the remarkable lives of the earliest homesteaders�men and women�of the Lower Yellowstone. Meet young Teddy Roosevelt, famed buffalo hunter Vic Smith, saloon owners, devious outlaws, and persistent sheriffs. Working as a cowboy, young Freddie broke horses, helped catch a horsethief, survived the cattle-killing winter of 1886, and at age ten rode alone 100 miles to work a season on a ranch in the Dakota Territories. Fred�s was a life of struggle against many obstacles, but he overcame them or abided them with no complaint. As he himself put it: �The hero was throwed, but the horse was tamed.� Meticulously researched and superbly written, A Hard Won Life is a tale of bravery, determination, and one boy�s embodiment of the spirit of Montana.
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BN ID: | 2940149528585 |
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Publisher: | Farcountry Press / Sweetgrass Books |
Publication date: | 05/20/2014 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 570 |
File size: | 8 MB |
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