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May - The Hard-Rock Life of Pioneer May Arkwright Hutton (Paperback)
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May - The Hard-Rock Life of Pioneer May Arkwright Hutton (Paperback)
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An adventurous single woman who knew how to cook,
twenty-three-year-old May Arkwright moved -- alone -- to the remote
valleys of northern Idaho in 1883. She opened a one-table
restaurant for the silver prospectors near Wallace, serving her
homemade berry pies and hot dishes. Before long, she was a
well-known part of the fledgling mining district.
May, a large, outspoken woman who favored low-cut, brightly colored
dresses, scandalized the "proper" women of town. But her
self-confidence and ease with people helped her make important
friends among the miners, merchants, and railroad men who ate at
her table. After she met and married local train engineer Al
Hutton, the two invested in a mine upstream from Wallace. After
several long years they struck it rich and moved to Spokane, where
May spent the rest of her life working on philanthropic projects
that still affect residents of the Pacific Northwest to this day.
As related through the skilled storytelling of Mary Barmeyer
O'Brien, this larger-than-life woman's story adds a compelling new
element to the history of the West.
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