Tomboy Bride by Harriet Fish Backus5/12/2023 A slip on the ice, a headlong tumble into ten feet of snow, the one-hundred-foot snow tunnel leading to their outhouse - all served to amuse her. Backus writes affectionately about perilous roads, meager quarters, heavy snows, good friends - even pack rats.Īs a young woman, Backus delighted in almost everything, especially her husband. In this case, the Tomboy in the title refers to the name of the mines above Telluride, not to the author’s personality.īut Backus does seem to be game for anything when she goes as a newlywed to live above 11,000 feet in the bowl of an avalanche-prone cirque. TOMBOY BRIDE is the memoir of a woman who followed her engineer husband from mining camp to mining camp for a decade (which began in 1908 and ended with World War 1 in 1918). Tomboy Bride – A Woman’s Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West Coloado History – December 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine
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