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Article: My Montana: A History And Memoir, 1930-1950.(Book review)
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- Oregon Historical Quarterly
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- March 22, 2008
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MY MONTANA: A HISTORY AND MEMOIR, 1930-1950
by Jewel Lansing
Inkwater Press, Portland, Oregon, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 297 pages. $22.95 paper.
Jewel Lansing's My Montana: A History and Memoir, 1930-1950 provides a nice snapshot of homestead and rural Montana life by intertwining personal memories with secondary sources. Lansing's inspiration was her mother's admonishment, "Never marry a farmer; the life of a farmer's wife is too hard" (p. ix). She captures life in rural Montana through her vivid descriptions of the "universe" that, for her, 11 was a safe and comfortable one--a world of innocence and ...