A very sappy and soapy first-novel (1916) – of interest, though, because of the author's important place in Maine literature as the successor to Sarah Orne Jewett and the predecessor to Elizabeth Strout. A "boarding school story" of a Wyoming girl at a New England boarding school. Even Angela Brazil could do better. The Girl from the Big Horn Country is definitely not representative of Chase's later and very important mid-20th century novels, especially The Edge of Darkness, but is definitely worth reading for anyone interested in this major (and unfortunately today too much forgotten) figure in Maine literature.

Virginia of Elk Creek Valley (1917) is the sequel to The Girl from the Big Horn Country. ( )