Cowgirl Dreams - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor By Heidi Thomas Klappentext From her ranch home in Montana in the 1920s, Nettie Brady dreamed of joining the rodeo circuit and becoming a star. Defying her mother's wishes and trading her skirts for trousers--and riding the range with her brothers and taking on the occasional half-ton steer in local rodeos--Nettie bucked convention to compete with men in the arena. When family hardship and tragedy threaten her plans, she turns back toward a more traditional life as a ranch woman, but chafes against its restrictions. Then she meets and falls in love with a young neighbor who rides broncs and raises rodeo stock. Can Nettie's rodeo dreams come true if she's also a wife and mother? Based on the life of the author's grandmother, a real Montana cowgirl, this novel takes on the big issues of a woman's place in the west, the crushing difficulties of surviving on a homestead, and the excitement and romance of a young girl aching to follow her dream.

Product details

• Authors: Heidi Thomas, Heidi M. Thomas, Thomas Heidi
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2014
• EAN: 9780762796991
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-9699-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Westerns, MONTANA, ROCKY MOUNTAINS, WEST, Fiction: general & literary, Westerns, Adventure fiction: Westerns