num_pages: 204
description: Emma's family moves west to Montana where her brother hopes to strike it rich. Settling in the town of Deer Lodge, Emma's brother works during the day for Henry Parchen, the absentee owner of City Drug. Emma falls in love with her brother's boss, and is married in 1872. She thought she had married well until she finds her new home is the barren, second floor warehouse of the Helena store. Shocked and displaced, Emma faces her new reality as she learns to make the most of what little she has. This is the story of twelve years of Emma's marriage to Henry Parchen in a world of western isolation with threats of an Indian attack and hopes of a railroad. This is their hard work, their tragedies, their joys - their American Dream. The people are real.
language: English
title: Emma Parchen : Twelve Years of Her American Dream
titlecomplete: Emma Parchen : Twelve Years of Her American Dream
publisher: Book Montana