{"product_id":"horseback-schoolmarm-montana-1953-1954-paperback","title":"Horseback Schoolmarm: Montana, 1953-1954 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargot Liberty\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1953, Margot Pringle, newly graduated from Cornell University, took a job as a teacher in a one-room school in rural eastern Montana, sixty miles southeast of Miles City. \"Miss Margot,\" as her students called her, would teach at the school for one year. This book is the memoir she wrote then, published here for the first time, under her married name. Filled with humor and affection for her students, \u003ci\u003eHorseback Schoolmarm\u003c\/i\u003e recounts Liberty's coming of age as a teacher, as well as what she taught her students. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Margot's school was located on the SH Ranch, whose owner needed a way to retain his hired hands after their children reached school age. Few teachers wanted to work in such remote and primitive circumstances. Margot lived alone in a \"teacherage,\" hardly more than a closet at one end of the schoolhouse. It had electricity but no phone, plumbing, or running water. She drew water from a well outside. The nearest house was a half-mile away. Margot had a car, but she had to park it so far away, she kept her saddle horse, Orphan Annie, in the schoolyard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Miss Margot started with no experience and no supplies, but her spunk and inventiveness, along with that of her seven students, made the school a success. Evocative of Laura Ingalls Wilder's school-teaching experiences some eighty years earlier, \u003ci\u003eHorseback Schoolmarm\u003c\/i\u003e gives readers a firsthand look at an almost forgotten--yet not so distant--way of life.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759482765600,"sku":"9780806190020","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/629f30b9ef175e96494cff983da7ddd8.webp?v=1780154105","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/horseback-schoolmarm-montana-1953-1954-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}