HAPPY HALLOWEEN just like the Header says, and since it is Halloween, I decided to use my sketch of Mary Hallock Foote's headstone.
Mary Hallock Foote married Arthur deWint Foote in 1876 and followed him around the country on his engineering jobs, e.g., Leadville, CO; Deadwood, SD, and Boise, ID, and finally settling in Grass Valley, CA. She wrote her reminiscences in A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West and other books like Led-Horse Claim: A Romance of a Mining Camp, The Prodigal, Couer d'Alene and many short stories, including one about ghosts (see Ron Scheer's blog post of 10-30-14 at his blog Buddies in the Saddle). In addition to her writing, she was an accomplished Artist and Illustrator. There is an example of her work for sale at antiques.com, an illustration containing a man and a woman, cost only $75. The Boise Public Library has some of her stuff in their collection and there is the Foote house in Boise.
Mrs. Foote was born in 1848 in New York and died in 1938.
Wikipedia's article on Mrs. Foote has more detail on her life and times and includes a bibliography of her works.
What a long life. She certainly witnessed a lot of history.
ReplyDeleteNinety years - a long time and she saw many changes.
Deletesounds like this would be well worth the read
ReplyDeleteYep. Ron Scheer has included her in his "How the West was Written, Vol. 1".
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