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  • An Unusual Childhood

  • Growing Up Around Jardine, Montana - 1916 - ca. 1930
  • By: Harlene Jessie Reeves
  • Narrated by: Wendy Kay White
  • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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An Unusual Childhood

By: Harlene Jessie Reeves
Narrated by: Wendy Kay White
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Reeves gives us her authentic account of growing up around the Montana town of Jardine which, today, is a virtual ghost town. Her stories are sometimes funny, as when she tells about a runt pig miraculously waxing fat after eating the crankcase oil from of a Model T Ford. Sometimes they're shocking, like "the worst day" in her life when her brother blew off his hand hammering a dynamite cap. Another brother almost died from eating carbide powder cookies he made.

This kid had an unusual childhood, growing up by a dying silver mining town bordering Yellowstone Park. You must hear this little girl's vividly told stories if you are interested in the vanishing western era she describes.

©2012 Bill H. Ritchie (P)2012 Bill H. Ritchie
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