ASIN: B00Q7QP5IS
Publisher: Mae Schick
Pages: 25
An angry mob seethes by Sophie’s homestead shack as she returns from town on her Appaloosa. It is dusk, and from the top of her hill, she hears them before she sees them. She can make out three. “Get down off that horse!” one of them hollers, “and take what’s comin’ to you.” Sophie sees her dog, Pip, lifeless near her door. Maybe Felix, her suitor, had been right. He warned her about going west and the danger from wolves, or bears, or even worse, roaming cowboys. She wouldn't have been in this fix had she married Felix and stayed at her journalist job in Chicago. But even Felix could not have predicted threats of violence from the neighbor women. Desperately she wondered: turn tail and ride to town? Or, stand her ground? Sophie Writes from Montana is a fictional account about the prejudices faced by independent women who dared to take up homesteading. What makes young Sophie leave her ...
