Harriet Fish Backus - Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition. Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co ISBN: 9780871085122 Number of pages: 320 Weight: 373 g Dimensions: 213 x 140 x 23 mm You may also be interested in. A Visit with the Tomboy Bride: Harriet Backus & Her Friends by Duane A. Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West Harriet Fish Backus Pruett Publishing, 1969 - Copper mines and mining - 273 pages 2 Reviews Reviews aren't. A Colorado favorite, Tomboy Bride presents the first-hand account of a young pioneer woman. Author: Backus, Harriet Fish Walton, Robert G Afterword.

Although both Hattie and George were from the San Francisco bay area where they eventually retired, her heart never quite left the rugged mountain trails of the high San Juans of Colorado. Tomboy Bride: A Womans Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West (Th. Harriet's life followed her husband George's career which took them many places beyond the San Juan Mountains including the rugged coast of British Columbia, and the mountainous mining town of Elk City, Idaho and back to Colorado's Leadville. It is a skillfully written account from a women's perspective in a rough and tumble mining town that has made this book a classic for women's studies.

Sharing her amusing and often challenging experiences as a new bride in the high San Juan Mountains where the Tomboy Mine operated above Telluride, Colorado, she paints a poignant picture of the people, and the life centered around silver mining where most of the book takes place. Harriet Backus writes about her life as an assayer's wife and true pioneer of the West with heart-felt emotion and vivid detail.

Tomboy Bride by Harriet Fish Backus