The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart

Product Description In 1901, Philadelphia's celebrity female journalist stepped off a train in Blackfoot, Montana, and into a world of living legends. The miners and frontiersmen, Indians and trappers that Caroline Lockhart met there inspired this beautiful, single, strong-willed woman to live a life she had only dreamed about in what remained of the Wild West. Review "[Clayton provides a compelling account of an American journalist who sought to tell the stories of the West at a time when it still promised a romantic, adventurous life to those who sought rural, unvarnished America."--Carolyn Bronstein, "Journalism History" --Carolyn Bronstein"Journalism History" (08/19/2008)"A very interesting, well-written, and well-documented look at an early Western woman writer who has not previously received the recognition she deserves. Caroline Lockhart is such a complex figure--talented, beautiful, energetic, and often headstrong, but also conniving, insecure, and mean spirited--that she will be of interest to readers who have never heard of her work. I stayed up late to finish it because I couldn't put it down!"--Sue Hart, Montana State University-Billings--Sue Hart (07/26/2006)"John Clayton's lively account of Caroline Lockhart is a welcome biography that will be of interest to western historians, women's historians, literary scholars, and general readers. . . . ["The Cowboy Girl" ] offers an enjoyable and readable window into the world of a woman we should all know better."--Laura Woodworth-Ney, "Oregon Historical Quarterly"--Laura Woodworth-Ney"Oregon Historial Quarterly" (04/17/2008)"[Clayton] provides a compelling account of an American journalist who sought to tell the stories of the West at a time when it still promised a romantic, adventurous life to those who sought rural, unvarnished America."--Carolyn Bronstein, "Journalism History" --Carolyn Bronstein"Journalism History" (08/19/2008)"A fresh and highly original portrait of that quirky, irascible writer of the range, Caroline Lockhart. Like the author herself, Clayton's work winds through a landscape both factual and fantastic; in the end he manages to shine light not merely on one unforgettable woman, but on the appetites and yearnings that have driven many of our most cherished notions of the American West."--Gary Ferguson, author of "The Great Divide"--Gary Ferguson (07/26/2006)"As biographies go, this is no doubt the best I have read in years."--Linda Wommack, "True West"--Linda Wommack"True West" (05/03/2007)"Expertly researched and wonderfully written, this biography of Lockhart expands the genre to a meditation on frontier, feminism, and the vagaries of literary hubris. Clayton has rendered a riveting portrait of a woman both troubled and brave; a character caught up in the fiction of her own life."--Mark Spragg, author of "An Unfinished Life"--Mark Spragg (07/26/2006)"Good reading about a remarkable personality."--Elizabeth M./i>--Elizabeth M. Esterchild"Annals of Wyoming" (06/01/2008)"John Clayton had his work cut out for him when he took on the challenge of writing a biography of a colorful and almost forgotten writer and cattle queen. The result is a thoroughly entertaining portrait." --Lorna Thackeray, "Billings Gazette"--Lorna Thackeray"Billings Gazette" (10/21/2007)"So you want to know more of the real Old West? Caroline Lockhart sure lived it. She had talent, guts, grit, and independence--yet she was so damned ornery that when I was growing up I knew a lot of folks who walked the other side of the street when they saw her comin'! John Clayton fully captures this complex and colorful gal in this lively, well-researched, thought-provoking, wonderful book. I heartily recommend it."--Al Simpson, -former Wyoming senator--Al Simpson (10/21/2007)"What a great service John Clayton has done us in rescuing Caroline Lockhart from oblivion in this insightful and highly readable biography. I was fascinated from beginning to end with this story of a woman w