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.
Readers from all walks of Life will find Life on Muskrat Creek to be a lively and provocative book..
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 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.
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.
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
