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In the memoirs of her long and dramatic life, Magee recounts many interesting aspects of early Montana:
-Her father's experiences as a free trader in the Rocky Mountains.
-Her mother's tales of her Shoshone ancestors.
-Her memories of her life as a mixed-blood child in the Missoula Valley during the nineteenth century.
-Her father's and other relatives' role in the Nez Perce War of 1877.
-Her travels with her first husband through the Upper Flathead Country and the Thompson Falls area of Montana and High River, Alberta.
-Her move with her second husband to the Flathead Indian Reservation and her impressions of the impact of allotment and the new irrigation system on the reservation community.
-Her daughter's life in the boarding school at St. Ignatius Mission in the early twentieth century.
Author: Ida S. Patterson
ISBN-10: 1934594083
ISBN-13: 9781934594087
Publisher: Salish Kootenai College Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2012
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d
Ida S. Patterson (1903-54), a young relative of Emma Magee, recorded this reminiscence in the late 1940s. It was published as a historical column in the Montana Farmer-Stockman in 1950. Some of her poetry was also published during her lifetime. She died in Polson, Montana, of complications from rheumatism.
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