Acknowledgments
Maps
Preface
Family Background
Chapter 1: 1910: "Rome Was Not Built in a Day"
Chapter 2: 1911: "The Customs of the Country"
Chapter 3: 1912: "Roll, Jordan, Roll"
Chapter 4:1912-13: "Love's Labor Lost and the 3 D's"
Chapter 5: 1913-15: "Raw Material"
Chapter 6: 1916-17: Growing Challenges
Chapter 7: 1918: The Beginning of the Mirage
Chapter 8: 1919: "The Equalizer"
Chapter 9: 1920: "We Will Rebuild, Again"
Chapter 10: 1921: "Never a Light But One's Own"
Chapter 11: 1922: "Earned Not Given"
Chapter 12: 1923: Daily Life on Muskrat Creek
Chapter 13: 1924: "Problems of Education"
Chapter 14: 1925: Changing Horizons
Epilogue
Bibliography
Frances Love Froidevaux (1942–2011) taught French and ESL and
founded the Bartlesville, OK, school system’s first foreign
language program.
Barbara Love has worked as an archaeologist, ESL and English
professor, and freelance editor.
Life on Muskrat Creek is a riveting account of the realities of
life on an isolated ranch in the early years of the Twentieth
Century, a must-read for all who wonder what life was like back in
"the good old days."
*Story Circle Book Reviews*
“Wyoming doesn’t have a lot of great writers,” said Dr. Sherry
Smith, a professional historian. Ethel Waxham Love was an
exception. Love moved to Wyoming in 1905. Life on a rural, isolated
ranch was a far cry from her Wellesley College background, and she
wrote about her experiences throughout her life. . . “She had a
wonderful sense of humor and gives great insights into what it was
like to live in Wyoming in the early 20th century,” Smith said. The
Love family’s newest book, “Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead
Family in Wyoming,” tells more about their family history.
*Jackson Hole News & Guide*
Life on Muskrat Creek is an immensely informative and yet riveting
account of the incredible hardships experienced by John and Ethel
Love while ranching in Wyoming between 1910 and 1925. Ethel’s
writing sparkles with description, and here forms an excellent
contrast to the grim facts David and the editors recount.
*Linda M. Hasselstrom, author of Gathering from the Grassland: A
Plains Journal*
Life on Muskrat Creek is well written and engaging, with dramatic,
vivid, and often suspenseful stories. The material does much to
enrich our understanding of ranching in early twentieth-century
Wyoming, especially women’s and children’s experiences.
*Cathryn Halverson, University of Copenhagen, author of Playing
House in the American West: Western Women’s Life Narratives,
1839-1987*
The story of Ethel Waxham and John Love is one of the most poignant
and memorable tales in the history of the West, where dreams and
harsh realities have always collided. Life on Muskrat Creek
is an important and unforgettable chronicle of hope and hardship in
the real West.
*Dayton Duncan, Co-writer, The West (PBS)*
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