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Grace McClure has created an even-handed account of the Bassetts. Drawing on interviews with surviving family, friends, and enemies, on memoirs, and on oral and written records from local libraries, newspapers and archives she presents believable, life-size characters who respond realistically to the demands of pioneer life.
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David Lainson
reviewed The Bassett Women on March 24, 2018
The Bassett Women
It's always a pleasure when a book is better than expected, and this one is. I had picked it up after visiting the Josie Bassett Morris cabin in Dinosaur National Monument, struck with both the beauty of Josie's valley and her decidedly unconventional life: fiercely independent, married five times, divorced four, bootlegger during Prohibition, and more. (Giving an insight into her personality, her bootlegging was not limited to ordinary corn liquor; in time, she used her creativity and business sense to expand this "sideline" to include apricot brandy and chokecherry wine.)
I expected a straightforward account of her life, which I found, but also countless tales about her family members and other colorful characters who homesteaded or passed through that area in the late 19th-early 20th centuries (including outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). I especially liked the quotations from primary sources, such as letters, court documents, and newspaper articles of the period.
Any list of books on women of the West should include this, but not just for scholars--read it for entertainment value alone.
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