Sheriff Garfield had just been elected to a second term in 1920 when he was fatally shot. His wife Ruth; a ranching woman with a young son; set aside her grief to serve out her husband's term. She was Montana's first female sheriff and served two years.Stories like Ruth Garfield's fill the pages of Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams: Montana Women's Stories. The women featured in this book range from late eighteenth-century Indian women warriors to twenty-first century Blackfeet banker Elouise Cobell. They span geography―from the western Montana women who worked for the Forest Service; to Miles City doctor Sadie Lindeberg. And they span ideology―from the members of the Montana Federation of Colored Women's Clubs; who led the fight for laws banning segregation in public accommodations; to the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. With grit and foresight; these women shaped Montana.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A pleasurable classic work of the New Urbanist movementBy Books n' music fanThis is simply one of our favorite books within the genre of community rebuilding and cultural cohesion. That the author writes eloquently makes this book a true pleasure to read.Spoiler alert: Baseball fans will also find much to love about this book at its conclusion.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Architecture with a purpose!By Sandra K. McnamaraGreat treatise for putting some teeth into the "new urbanism" and what it should look like physically. A great vision for the development of urban neighborhoods.10 of 13 people found the following review helpful. a marvellous vision of how the world should buildBy Elias F. CrimIf the following paraphrase is not too crude a summary of Philip Bess' brilliant synthesis in this book; the author believes that we all carry a kind of moral DNA within us which not only urges us not to murder but not to allow urban sprawl to devour our landscape and kill our authentic civic life. How ironic that we Americans hunger for the beauty of European small towns; for example; but don't realize that their "human scale" is related to ancient notions of what cities are for -- to make people good (i.e.; excellent). This is not a political nor a polemical tract: Bess takes the reader into serious philosophical waters and his emphasis on virtues-based theories of human behavior mirrors the current work of leading philosophers and psychologists like Alasdair MacIntyre and Martin Seligman.
