More Praise for An Improbable Pioneer
I finished your book a week ago--could hardly put it down. I feel very fortunate to have been able to share the life of such a delightlful, insightful person! She had such a warm way of sharing her thoughts and experiences that I came to feel like she was almost a friend. Your book is a wonderful portrayal of a fascinating family. Thank you so much! Sherrie PS I came to Wy very much a city girl too and could so empathize with her experiences and feelings.
-- Sherrie Glade
Worland, Wyo.
Just finished "An Improbable Pioneer" and I absolutely loved it. What a wonderful story about your grandmother's journey from a young, sophisticated Bostonian to an adventurous and accomplished aristocrat of the Wild West! Not to speak of your grandparents' endearing love story.
If we could be reincarnated back in time, I would love to be that young Edith showing up in Buffalo as a newly wed and despite some understandable cultural adjustments, just having the time of her life! You wove together Edith's letters and your narrative so skillfully -- the whole story just fit together. For me, it also helped tie together some of the family history that I've heard over the years. An admirable project, a great, moving tribute to the entire clan and a really terrific story. Thanks for sharing it with us outsiders!!
-- Amy Ujifusa,
Chappaqua, NY
What a wonderful cast of characters Cathy has assembled and they are all real people. I could imagine myself up on the Big Horn Mts. in the early days as I read the letters of Edith Healy written to her mother in Boston. How she coped with living in a sheep wagon after being brought up as a lady in Boston was very interesting. Alex, her new husband, must have had a heart of gold to help her adjust to her new life. Edith Healy was the Juliette Low of Girl Scouts in the Big Horn Basin and WY. I was a girl scout and a brownie scout under her tutelage.
Kudos to Cathy for writing this extraordinary book about her ancestors and for making it interesting to the rest of us.
-- Donna Graff Simonson (Review: Amazon.com)
Hemet, CA
Edith Healy is my great grandmother. I wish I had known her. The stories that my mother & grandmother have told about her over the years highlight what an extraordinary woman she was and the legacy that she has passed on. I have read many of these letters prior to publication, as well as a few others not included in the book, and find them absolutely facinating. Edith had tremendous powers of observation and a way of describing things that allows you to picture exactly what she was seeing. This is the type of book that I love to read about real history & real people, living "ordinary" lives. There was nothing ordinary about Edith Healy.
-- Tartancorgi (Review: Amazon.com)
I finished your book a week ago--could hardly put it down. I feel very fortunate to have been able to share the life of such a delightlful, insightful person! She had such a warm way of sharing her thoughts and experiences that I came to feel like she was almost a friend. Your book is a wonderful portrayal of a fascinating family. Thank you so much! Sherrie PS I came to Wy very much a city girl too and could so empathize with her experiences and feelings.
-- Sherrie Glade
Worland, Wyo.
Just finished "An Improbable Pioneer" and I absolutely loved it. What a wonderful story about your grandmother's journey from a young, sophisticated Bostonian to an adventurous and accomplished aristocrat of the Wild West! Not to speak of your grandparents' endearing love story.
If we could be reincarnated back in time, I would love to be that young Edith showing up in Buffalo as a newly wed and despite some understandable cultural adjustments, just having the time of her life! You wove together Edith's letters and your narrative so skillfully -- the whole story just fit together. For me, it also helped tie together some of the family history that I've heard over the years. An admirable project, a great, moving tribute to the entire clan and a really terrific story. Thanks for sharing it with us outsiders!!
-- Amy Ujifusa,
Chappaqua, NY
What a wonderful cast of characters Cathy has assembled and they are all real people. I could imagine myself up on the Big Horn Mts. in the early days as I read the letters of Edith Healy written to her mother in Boston. How she coped with living in a sheep wagon after being brought up as a lady in Boston was very interesting. Alex, her new husband, must have had a heart of gold to help her adjust to her new life. Edith Healy was the Juliette Low of Girl Scouts in the Big Horn Basin and WY. I was a girl scout and a brownie scout under her tutelage.
Kudos to Cathy for writing this extraordinary book about her ancestors and for making it interesting to the rest of us.
-- Donna Graff Simonson (Review: Amazon.com)
Hemet, CA
Edith Healy is my great grandmother. I wish I had known her. The stories that my mother & grandmother have told about her over the years highlight what an extraordinary woman she was and the legacy that she has passed on. I have read many of these letters prior to publication, as well as a few others not included in the book, and find them absolutely facinating. Edith had tremendous powers of observation and a way of describing things that allows you to picture exactly what she was seeing. This is the type of book that I love to read about real history & real people, living "ordinary" lives. There was nothing ordinary about Edith Healy.
-- Tartancorgi (Review: Amazon.com)