Clarice E. Richards of Dayton, Ohio, was a tenderfoot when in 1900
she moved to a ranch in Elbert County, Colorado, east of Pikes
Peak. She was the bride of Jarvis Richards, a former Congregational
minister from Vermont. It was an unlikely place for these two
cultured easterners to land, but Clarice, possessing curiosity and
a lively sense of humor, became thoroughly westernized as she
witnessed "the ebb of the tide of the wild, lawless days,"
succeeded by the more pastoral eras of the sheepman and farmer. Her
memoir, "A Tenderfoot Bride," was first published in 1920 and
praised for its charm and verisimilitude, qualities that have
increased in value with time. Maxine Benson's introduction expands
on the ranching and political activities of the close-knit Richards
family and on a well-publicized courtroom trial in 1902 pitting
Jarvis against a neighboring rancher.
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