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Mary Clearman Blew is Professor of English & Creative Writing at the University of Idaho, Moscow. She is the author of "Bone Deep in Landscape", "All But the Waltz", "Balsamroot" (University of Oklahoma Press) & "Sister Coyote: Montana Stories" & is coeditor of "Circle of Women: An Anthology of show more Contemporary Western Women's Writing". 050. show less

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The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology (1988) — Contributor — 179 copies
The Best of Montana's Short Fiction (2004) — Contributor — 20 copies

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Waltzing Montana by Mary Clearman Blew

Mildred Harrington is a horseback riding midwife in 1925 in rural Montana. She's returning home from a medical visit and comes across her old friend Pat Adams, lying injured, off the side of the road. She barely gets him onto her horse and carefully gets him back to her place. Her friend Renny, who lives at her farm, helps her to get Pat off the horse and into a wagon, so she can splint his broken limb and haul him to the Sister's Mission so he can be tended by a medical doctor. Pat tells her and the Sister's an excuse as to how he became injured, that doesn't add up to the injuries that he has suffered.

Pat eventually tells everyone how he came to be injured. It has something to do with his own father.

Mildred and Pat have a long history together. They've lived near each other, for most of their lives, they've loved each other for most of that time.

I enjoyed the book, it is well written and easy to read.

I received a complimentary copy from NetGalley with no obligation to post a review.
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HuberK | Feb 7, 2021 |
Story of a spinster woman who lived with her father on a run-down Montana ranch and taught country school. At the beginning of the story the father commits suicide and she is left wondering what to do with her life when a despirate teenage girl enters it along with a lawyer/cowboy interested in her. Has rich Californians coming in building fancy houses and changing things as often happens in Montana these days. I did not care for the storytelling method with the fathers's supposed thoughts entering her head and telling her what to do. It drug on and was not compulsively entertaining, though interesting.… (more)
 
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ZachMontana | 1 other review | Sep 11, 2018 |
good story. she doesn't spare herself but it's just not that interesting
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mahallett | 2 other reviews | Sep 29, 2012 |
i would like to have given more stars. the last chapter was excellent. the stories of her family were great but she jumped around so much that i got confused. anyone reading my reviews would send me for a dementia check but i like a story to proceed from a to b rather than a to d to m to c to b to…………. i would pick up the book and have no idea who these people were.
 
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