May

The Hard-Rock Life of Pioneer May Arkwright Hutton

Mary Barmeyer O'Brien

An adventurous single woman who knew how to cook, twenty-three-year-old May Arkwright moved — alone — to the remote valleys of northern Idaho in 1883. She opened a one-table restaurant for the silver prospectors near Wallace, serving her homemade berry pies and hot dishes. Before long, she was a well-known part of the fledgling mining district.
May, a large, outspoken woman who favored low-cut, brightly colored dresses, scandalized the “proper” women of town. But her self-confidence and ease with people helped her make important friends among the miners, merchants, and railroad men who ate at her table. After she met and married local train engineer Al Hutton, the two invested in a mine upstream from Wallace. After several long years they struck it rich and moved to Spokane, where May spent the rest of her life working on philanthropic projects that still affect residents of the Pacific Northwest to this day. As related through the skilled storytelling of Mary Barmeyer O’Brien, this larger-than-life woman’s story adds a compelling new element to the history of the West.

Globe Pequot / TwoDot

Pages: 208 • Trim: 5½ x 8½

978-0-7627-7345-9 • Paperback • August 2013 • $16.95 • (£10.95)

978-0-7627-9720-2 • eBook • August 2013 • $15.99 • (£10.95)

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women, Fiction / Historical / General, History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

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An adventurous single woman who knew how to cook, twenty-three-year-old May Arkwright moved — alone — to the remote valleys of northern Idaho in 1883. She opened a one-table restaurant for the silver prospectors near Wallace, serving her homemade berry pies and hot dishes. Before long, she was a well-known part of the fledgling mining district.
May, a large, outspoken woman who favored low-cut, brightly colored dresses, scandalized the “proper” women of town. But her self-confidence and ease with people helped her make important friends among the miners, merchants, and railroad men who ate at her table. After she met and married local train engineer Al Hutton, the two invested in a mine upstream from Wallace. After several long years they struck it rich and moved to Spokane, where May spent the rest of her life working on philanthropic projects that still affect residents of the Pacific Northwest to this day. As related through the skilled storytelling of Mary Barmeyer O’Brien, this larger-than-life woman’s story adds a compelling new element to the history of the West.

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Globe Pequot / TwoDot

Pages: 208 • Trim: 5½ x 8½

978-0-7627-7345-9 • Paperback • August 2013 • $16.95 • (£10.95)

978-0-7627-9720-2 • eBook • August 2013 • $15.99 • (£10.95)

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women, Fiction / Historical / General, History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

Author

Mary Barmeyer O'Brien’s books on the pioneer experience include Toward the Setting Sun: Pioneer Girls Traveling the Overland Trails; Heart of the Trail: The Stories of Eight Wagon Train Women; Outlasting the Trail: The Story of a Woman's Journey West; and Across Death Valley. She lives in Polson, Montana.

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The rags-to-riches story of a woman who went west to seek her fortune and became one of the great philanthropists in the history of the Pacific Northwest

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the mining camps of Idaho when it was still the Wild West

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The Hard-Rock Life of Pioneer May Arkwright Hutton

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