Part 1

A WOMAN TENDERFOOT

By Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

1900

In this Book the full-page Drawings were made by Ernest Seton-Thompson, G. Wright and E.M. Ashe, and the Marginals by S.N. Abbott. The cover, title-page and general make-up were designed by the Author. Thanks are due to Miller Christy for proof revision, and to A.A. Anderson for valuable suggestions on camp outfitting. (No illustrations are included in this file.)

THIS BOOK IS A TRIBUTE TO THE WEST.

I have used many Western phrases as necessary to the Western setting.

I can only add that the events related really happened in the Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada; and this is why, being a woman, I wanted to tell about them, in the hope that some going-to-Europe-in-the-summer-woman may be tempted to go West instead.

G.G.S.-T.

New York City, September 1st, 1900.

CONTENTS

I The Why of It

II Outfit and Advice for the Woman-who-goes-hunting-with-her-husband

III The First Plunge of the Woman Tenderfoot

IV Which Treats of the Imps and My Elk

V Lost in the Mountains

VI The Cook

VII Among the Clouds

VIII At Yeddars

IX My Antelope

X A Mountain Drama

XI What I Know about Wahb of the Bighorn Basin

XII The Dead Hunt

XIII Just Rattlesnakes

XIV As Cowgirl

XV The Sweet Pea Lady Someone Else's Mountain Sheep

XVI In which the Tenderfoot Learns a New Trick

XVII Our Mine

XVIII The Last Word