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Horseback Schoolmarm - Montana, 1953-1954 (Hardcover)
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Horseback Schoolmarm - Montana, 1953-1954 (Hardcover)
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In 1953, Margot Pringle, newly graduated from Cornell University,
took a job as a teacher in a one-room school in rural eastern
Montana, sixty miles southeast of Miles City. ""Miss Margot,"" as
her students called her, would teach at the school for one year.
This book is the memoir she wrote then, published here for the
first time, under her married name. Filled with humor and affection
for her students, Horseback Schoolmarm recounts Liberty's coming of
age as a teacher, as well as what she taught her students. Margot's
school was located on the SH Ranch, whose owner needed a way to
retain his hired hands after their children reached school age. Few
teachers wanted to work in such remote and primitive circumstances.
Margot lived alone in a ""teacherage,"" hardly more than a closet
at one end of the schoolhouse. It had electricity but no phone,
plumbing, or running water. She drew water from a well outside. The
nearest house was a half-mile away. Margot had a car, but she had
to park it so far away, she kept her saddle horse, Orphan Annie, in
the schoolyard. Miss Margot started with no experience and no
supplies, but her spunk and inventiveness, along with that of her
seven students, made the school a success. Evocative of Laura
Ingalls Wilder's school-teaching experiences some eighty years
earlier, Horseback Schoolmarm gives readers a firsthand look at an
almost forgotten - yet not so distant - way of life.
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