Lonesome Land

This was interesting enough to read all in one day and only put down once. It was not pleasant reading about a young woman coming to grips with learning her new husband is an alcoholic and having him degenerate into an abusive thief. It was good to read how the rather stuck-up young lady learns to make friends with the rough Westerners, and to survive the difficult living conditions with a good bit of bravery. At many spots in the story, it felt as though the circumstances were intensely personal to the author herself, lending a strong authenticity to the story line.
The descriptions of frontier Montana were very interesting and almost tangible–the rough town, the prairie fire, the round-up, the shivaree.