Oliver submits, not expecting that pretty, petite Rose will have her brother Morrie in tow. Rose Llewellyn doesn’t come cheap she wants her fare paid from Minneapolis, plus three months wages in advance. He is struggling to raise his three boys single-handedly (13-year-old Paul, the narrator, and kid brothers Damon and Toby) when he spots an ad for a housekeeper. Now it’s 1909, and Oliver has been able to make ends meet as a dryland farmer, weathering the death of his wife from a burst appendix.
Lured by the government promise of free land for homesteaders, Oliver Milliron forsook his Wisconsin drayage business and brought his family to Montana.
Scenes from an early-20th-century Montana childhood, from this veteran Western author ( Prairie Nocturne, 2003, etc.).
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