A Woman Tenderfoot

Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

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A WOMAN TENDERFOOT BY GRACE GALLATIN SETON-THOMPSON 1900

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THIS BOOK IS A TRIBUTE TO THE WEST.

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 are due to Miller Christy for proof revision, and to A.A. Anderson for valuable suggestions on camp outfitting.

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Title: A Woman Tenderfoot Author: Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson Release Date: December, 2005 [EBook #9412] [This file was first posted on September 30, 2003] Edition: 10 Language: English

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New York City, September 1st, 1900.

G.G.S.-T.

I can only add that the events related really happened in the Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada; and this is why, being a woman, I wanted to tell about them, in the hope that some going-to-Europe-in-the-summer-woman may be tempted to go West instead.

na yeWts esudem I havre neWtsni.gesttrysaesece tho  tarhp nren sa ses

CONTENTS

I The Why of It II Outfit and Advice for the Woman-who-goes-hunting-with-her-husband III The First Plunge of the Woman Tenderfoot IV Which Treats of the Imps and My Elk V Lost in the Mountains VI The Cook VII Among the Clouds VIII At Yeddars IX My Antelope X A Mountain Drama XI What I Know about Wahb of the Bighorn Basin XII The Dead Hunt XIII Just Rattlesnakes XIV As Cowgirl XV The Sweet Pea Lady Someone Else's Mountain Sheep XVI In which the Tenderfoot Learns a New Trick XVII Our Mine XVIII The Last Word

A LIST OF FULL-PAGE DRAWINGS.

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 stuck quivering

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

I.

THEWHYOFIT.

Theoretically, I have always agreed with the Quaker wife who reformed her husband—"Whither thou goest, I go also, Dicky dear." What thou doest, I do also, Dicky dear. So when, the year after our marriage, Nimrod announced that the mountain madness was again working in his blood, and that he must go West and take up the trail for his holiday, I tucked my summer-watering-place-and-Europe-flying-trip mind away (not without regret, I confess) and cautiously tried to acquire a new vocabulary and some new ideas.

Of course, plenty of women have handled guns and have gone to the Rocky Mountains on hunting trips—but they were not among my friends. However, my imagination was good, and the outfit I got together for my first trip appalled that good man, my husband, while the number of things I had to learn appalled me.

In fact, the first four months spent 'Out West' were taken up in learning how to ride, how to dress for it, how to shoot, and how to philosophise, each of which lessons is a story in itself. But briefly, in order to come to this story, I must have a side talk with the Woman-who-goes-hunting-with-her-husband. Those not interested please omit the next chapter.

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II. OUTFIT AND ADVICEFOR THEWOMAN-WHO-GOES-HUNTING-WITH-HER-HUSBAND.

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