Bushy: A Romance Founded on Fact by Cynthia May Westover Alden

Description

Until she is four, Bushy Sukolt lives comfortably in Afton, Iowa, where her father is half of the biggest foundry in the state — until a twist of fortune sends her little family west. What follows is the story of a resourceful girl making her way on the American frontier, where she quickly becomes the camp’s one little girl, fussed over by every miner and followed everywhere by her cat Pete.

Written by Cynthia May Westover Alden — a pioneering woman journalist and the editor of American Woman’s Home — the book is openly a romance founded on fact, and its facts are of the engagingly particular kind: the foundry politics, the mine camps, the rough tenderness of lonely men. Alden gives a frontier that is warm, funny, and short on sentimentality; a book that deserves its place in Western letters.

Why readers still come back to it

• An unusual frontier heroine, drawn from a real life
• Warm, unsentimental picture of mining-camp life
• A female writer’s view of the American West, written with relish

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