New Years Eve at Glendive
January 1, 2020
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Oil on Old Barnwood
Q; What's wrong with this Montana New Year's Eve Party?
A: It lacks women!
Q: Why does it?
A: Because there weren't any!
Well, at least not so many back in the early 1900s. Not every eastern girl was a Rachel Schroeder that would jump on a train at the drop of a marriage proposal and head out to the rigors of the Wild West to give birth to Fannie Sperry; or the young woman teacher heading to Chester in 1904 that braved a train and stagecoach safari and mud streets and sod houses to come out here
and pound a little learning into the young roughnecks growing...
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