{"product_id":"montana-cattle-queen-bill-shuey-9798639798764","title":"Montana Cattle Queen: The Phoebe Anderson Story","description":"This book chronicles the life of Phoebe Anderson from her birth in the 1850s until her death in the 1920s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhobe's mother died in childbirth, and she was raised on a dirt poor farm in Missouri by her older brother of four years and father. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe family moved to Kansas for a better life. Phoebe's father and brother are killed in the slaughter by the Quantrill guerrilla raid on Lawrence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArmed with a hatred of the bushwhackers who killed her family and the ability to shoot the eyes out of squirrel at one hundred yards, she dresses as a boy and joined the Union Army as a sharpshooter. Later she goes out on her own to hunt down and kill bushwhackers. After being wounded, she heads for New Orleans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing the poker skills she was taught by her father; she becomes a riverboat gambler. She quits the riverboat gambling lifestyle for a time and works in a hospital in New Orleans nursing wounded soldiers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe returns to gambling and wins half interest in a cattle ranch in a poker game and heads for Texas to go into the cattle business. After marrying the other half-owner, they move the entire herd to Montana and establish a ranch in the Beaverhead Valley. After her husband is killed, she endures harsh winters, Indians, cattle rustlers, and the isolation of living in 19th century Montana, to build a giant ranching operation and home for her children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhoebe suffers the discrimination of the 1800s which denied women the right to even escort their own cattle to market.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Shuey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798639798764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.06d","brand":"Bill Shuey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48487290863871,"sku":"9798639798764","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a678742f-ed63-4ab0-ab62-678d75ac6a6d.jpg?v=1778059582","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/montana-cattle-queen-bill-shuey-9798639798764","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}