Instead of diving right into the book review I'd like to first take the time to share a piece of a conversation that took place between me and my kiddos. I was reading aloud a book to my kiddos when the questions started coming in. I encourage questions because that's how we learn. Eventually we got onto the topic of the importance of reading. Hitler and the book burning was brought up. As well as the Roman Catholic Church and the Latin Bible. If history has taught us anything it's that an illiterate society is an easily controlled society. 1984 anyone? Before heading over here to write I watched a YouTube video where the person was talking about how they had too many books and needed to downsize. It left me dumbfounded. They barely had anything!!! Seriously! Downsize books?! Are you kidding me?! NEVER!!!! BOOKS ARE LIFE!!! LONG LIVE THE BOOKSHELF!!! Books are a gateway to another world! There you can be a princess in a castle fighting a dragon or being rescued from it, whatever your taste You can be little boy living in the jungle! You can learn things you wouldn't know otherwise such as ladybugs are really carnivores! Books are knowledge. Books are powerful. Well my rant is long enough and not any where near be completed so I'll just have to end it with BUY MORE BOOKS. BUY THEM ALL!!! Onto the review....
Montana Women Homesteaders was a gift to me from my husband. He knows me so well! The book consists of letters from homesteading women in the early 1900s. Some of the women have a borderline feminist attitude but they are the exception not the rule. Most were just thrown a curve ball in life such as a husband's death. They had no choice but to make lemonade out of lemons. Life is not a walk in the park. There are bad times and good times, both of which these women were no strangers too. The women faced hard times such as drought, crop failure, delivering babies without proper knowledge, ill animals and sometimes the loss of the animals just to name a few. It's a firsthand account of survival and will power. Homesteading, especially back in the day, was not for the faint of the heart. If your crops failed you, you couldn't run to the store and buy back up produce. You most likely weren't even lucky enough to have a neighbor that had food to share. You had to survive on what you had. At times the women faced starvation. The women weren't always alone. Some had lady friends, children, brothers, mother's, etc join them on their stead but it was registered in their name and they were the sole care taker of the place. There was no pattern in ages. Some were young and some were old but they all shared one thing, the will to live. They survived. They shared their stories. They shared their pictures. They shared their documents. It's a humbling read of history. While it is history it is not your highschool dry textbook. Pick it up. You'll be amazed at the strength of the women and will be ever so grateful for what you have. Also you won't see these women running around burning bras or crying for safe spaces. These are the real powerful women. They didn't think low of men. Some actually rather that their man was still alive so he could handle the dirty work and stress of life on a homestead in Montana. They did amazing things despite hardships thrown at them.
It's a great book. You won't regret reading it.
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