A WOMAN TENDERFOOT
By Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
1900
Original Size
Original Size
In this Book the full-page Drawings were made by Ernest Seton-Thompson,G. Wright and E.M. Ashe, and the Marginals by S.N. Abbott. The cover,title-page and general make-up were designed by the Author. Thanks aredue to Miller Christy for proof revision, and to A.A. Anderson forvaluable suggestions on camp outfitting. (No illustrations are includedin this file.)
THIS BOOK IS A TRIBUTE TO THE WEST.
I have used many Western phrases as necessary to the Western setting.
I can only add that the events related really happened in the RockyMountains of the United States and Canada; and this is why, being awoman, I wanted to tell about them, in the hope that somegoing-to-Europe-in-the-summer-woman may be tempted to go West instead.
G.G.S.-T.
New York City, September 1st, 1900.
A LIST OF FULL-PAGE DRAWINGS (in the original printed book)
Costume for cross saddle riding
Tears starting from your smoke-inflamed eyes
Saddle cover for wet weather Policeman's equestrian rain coat
She was postmistress twice a week
The trail was lost in a gully
Whetted one to a razor edge and threw it into a tree where it stuckquivering
Not three hundred yards away ... were two bull elk in deadly combat
Down the path came two of the prettiest Blacktails
A misstep would have sent us flying over the cliff
Thus I fought through the afternoon
We whizzed across the railroad track in front of the Day Express
Five feet full in front of us, they pulled their horses to a dead stop
The coyotes made savage music
The horrid thing was ready for me I started on a gallop, swinging one arm
The warm beating heart of a mountain sheep
I could not keep away from his hoofs
We started forward, just as the rear wheels were hovering over the edge
"You better not sit down on that kaig ... It's nitroglycerine"
The tunnel caused its roof to cave in close behind me
A mountain lion sneaked past my saddle-pillowed head
CONTENTS
II. OUTFIT AND ADVICE FOR THEWOMAN-WHO-GOES-HUNTING-WITH-HER-HUSBAND.