Homestead
By: Annick Smith.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN; [Emeryville, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Smith, Annick, 1936-  -- Homes and haunts -- Montana.; Montana -- Description and travel.; Montana -- Social life and customs.
Description: In 1964 Annick Smith came to Montana with her husband Dave and their boys. In a fertile valley where meadows tip downward toward the Big Blackfoot River, they found what they had dreamed of: 163 acres of ranch land with a view of creek, hills, and the Rattlesnake Mountains. The Montana of which Annick Smith writes in this spirited and generous book is the not-so-distant West of outlaws and pioneers, Indians and soldiers, range inspectors and cattle thieves.

Smith writes of her friendship with Norman Maclean, who memorialized the Big Blackfoot in A River Runs Through It, and she eloquently makes the case for preserving the fragile wild environments that are our sacred places.