Mary Hallock Foote

A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West

Let's Talk About It!A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West (1972) presents the reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote, the cultivated Eastern wife of an engineer, who came to the Boise River Canyon in the 1880s. Foote, an illustrator and writer of short stories and sketches, chronicles her ambivalence to Idaho and to the West—she loves the harsh beauty of the land, but dislikes the isolation and the debilitating roughness of the life for women.


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