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Pioneer Women
In Their Own Words:
Women Tell the Story of the West
Many women who went west recorded their experiences in letters, journals and diaries, or in autobiographies or memoirs. These firsthand accounts run the gamut from the beautifully written observations of artistic souls to the pithy, sometimes crude, memoirs of frontier prostitutes.
Collecting Dorothy M. Johnson
Dorothy Marie Johnson grew up in Whitefish, Montana with a burning desire to write. Ironically, she gained her deep appreciation of the history of the American West by reading and visiting museums while she worked in New York City. Her finely crafted stories rank among the best in the genre.
Dorothy M. Johnson:
A Checklist of First Editions
The great collections of Johnson’s short fiction, Indian Countryand The Hanging Tree, are difficult to find in fine first editions. Her juveniles, all written during the 1960s, may be even harder to come by.
Books into Film
Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail, a novel by Borden Chase; Red River, a film by Howard Hawks.
Ten Years Ago
May 1993 Checklist Update: Jack Schaefer