Montana Women From the Ground Up: Passionate Voices in Agriculture & Land Conservation

by Kristine E. Ellis

Overview

Growing up on the family ranch, Linda Finley fought hard to gain the acceptance and respect as a ranch hand that her brothers took for granted. Arlene Pile barely remembers learning to ride a horse and run machinery—she was so young. She learned to drive on an 8N Ford tractor with a buck rake. Lee Jacobsen became the first woman in the state licensed to artificially inseminate cattle. Meet these and other Montana women passionate about caring for their land and determined to make the lifestyle their own. Many never doubted for a moment that they would spend their lives in agriculture, while others speak of their surprise and delight to find themselves living on the land. All agree that they wouldn't be happy doing anything else.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467137232
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	05/07/2018
Series:	American Heritage
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Born and raised in Montana, Kristine Ellis has been a freelance writer for the last many years.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction 13

Chapter 1 "The Land Called me" Colleen McGowan Gustafson 15

Nola Sorenson Peterson

Eleanor Baney Keopke

Esther Johnson McDonald

Chapter 2 "It's Better to Wear Out Than Rust Out Arlene Birkeland Pile 27

Doris Hellebust Bishop

Avis Ronning Berkram

Andrea Kallen Olenik

Chapter 3 "I Guess I Didn't Realize How Much Push I Had" Eva Hultin Amundson Connie Amundson Cain 39

Verna Marciniak Sokoloski

Joyce Larsen Dye

Georgia Tovatten Tomsheck

Chapter 4 "When You're a Farmer or Rancher, Your Kids are Involved from Day One" Valerie Miller Wadman 49

Judith Black Knapp

Evelyn Allen Aiken

Bonnie Hodgskiss Thies

Chapter 5 "I Took to It Like a Duck Does to Water" Dorothy Whitten Hahn 61

Barbara Beers Kirscker

Margaret Sanderson Floersinger

Helen Greutman Carey

Chapter 6 "You Don't Ranch Just Because You Love It-It Has to Be Workable" Glenna Krueger Stucky 71

Barbara Broberg

Mary Lee Pinod Jacobsem

Leila "Corky" Johnston French

Chapter 7 "Nature Adapts, and We Haw to Too" Donna Fritz Griffin 81

Michelle Geary Holt

Wendy Bengochea Becker

Chapter 8 "After You Take Care of Something for so Long, It Becomes a Part of You" Lauraine Whitworth Johnson 93

Jeanette Tomsheck Brown

Mary Sexton

Barbara Habets

Chapter 9 "Certain Horses Will Just Take Cart, of You" Betty Johnson Hedstrom 103

Melody Harding

Donna Nims Lenoir

Joan Meyer Smiley

Chapter 10 "Don't Tell 'Em You're Good-Show' Em" Janet Groggins Endecott 113

Cora Amdor Goggins

Diana Burkhart Graveley

Chapter 11 "Basically, You Don't Waste Anything" Margarct Small Fulson 123

Jean Patten Waldbillig

Helen Hammond Gibbs

Chapter 12 "People Need to Know Where Their Food Comes From" Pauline Adams Webb 135

Peggy Graveley Kude

Janet Cameron Zeig

Gloria Van Horn Sundquist

Chapter 13 "We Are Simply the Keepers of the Land for Now" Celeste Ward Schwend Linda Schwend Finley Dana Weatherford 145

Bonnie Norsby Kronebusch

Tracy Goerss Hentges

About Broadwater and Glacier County Conservation Districts 155

Index 157