When Montana and I were young
Subtitle: a frontier childhood
By: Margaret Bell ; edited and with an introduction by Mary Clearman Blew ; with an afterword by Lee Rostad.
Contributors: Blew, Mary Clearman, 1939-
Series: Women in the West
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Bell, Margaret, 1888-1982 -- Childhood and youth.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Canada.; Women ranchers -- Montana -- Biography.; Abused children -- Montana -- Biography.; Montana -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Lost for half a century and never before published, When Montana and I Were Young is the rarest of finds, a remarkable primary account of a child's life in the early part of the twentieth century. Margaret Bell (1888-1982) was a rancher and horse breaker whose memoir tells the story of a frontier childhood on the high plains of Montana and Canada. Hers was not a typical childhood. Like Mari Sandoz in Old Jules, Bell introduces us to a new villain in Western literature: the stepfather.

Bell was barely seven when her mother died, and her stepfather, Hedge Wolfe, moved Bell and her three younger half-sisters far from their nurturing grandmother to the Canadian plains and a life of extreme poverty, hardship, and abuse. Never asking for pity, Bell matter-of-factly describes the details of her extraordinary life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.