Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead Family in Wyoming

by Ethel Waxham Love and J David Love

Frances Love Froidevaux (Editor) and Barbara Love (Editor)

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Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a family's day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early twentieth-century Wyoming. Readers will be held in suspense as they learn about the family's battle with a variety of challenges, including a near-fatal bout with Spanish influenza, life-threatening encounters with livestock and wildlife, and disastrous episodes of fires, flooding, blizzards, and drought. The book's depiction of more ordinary events is equally engaging; Ethel describes becoming a wife and raising children without the support of neighbors, women friends, or a wider family network, and David recounts growing up in a wild and remote place where there was no local school to attend. Readers from all walks of life will find Life on Muskrat Creek to be a lively and provocative book.
  • ISBN10 1611462665
  • ISBN13 9781611462661
  • Publish Date 15 May 2020 (first published 23 February 2018)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Lehigh University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 288
  • Language English