02370cam a2200289 4500 759864190 TxAuBib 20220114120000.0 210315s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021011878 9781432879419 hbk. $25.95 1432879413 hbk. $25.95 (OCoLC)1243013043 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF BDX YDX KAH ZGX OCLCO TxGR TxAuBib Feldman, Kerry Dean, 1940-, author. Alice's Trading Post [Book] : a novel of the west / Kerry Dean Feldman. First edition. Waterville, Maine : Five Star, 2022. 371 pages ; 23 cm. Five Star frontier fiction "Alice's Trading Post is the story of an untamable, unforgettable woman with a wry wit who lives 103 adventurous years. She survives all the west could throw at a woman, fights to be herself, live free, and find love. Treat her with respect, you walk away safe. If not, there will be consequences. Alice never met her young Army of the West officer father stationed in Oregon Territory, 1860s. She's raised like a boy by her Canadian trapper stepfather and lovely, feisty, Indian mother alongside the Columbia River. She can shoot a beaver eye at a hundred paces, doesn't know how to cook or sew, can fight blade up with knives, hunt bear on her own, never wears a dress. This idyllic life in the Willamette Valley ends when she begins her woman moons, and her family travels across the Mullan Road to wild Fort Benton on the Upper Missouri, Montana Territory. Circumstances force her mother to trade her to an old fur trader. Young Alice must learn how to become a woman on her own, wonders if she's Indian like her mother or white like her father. She longs for family, love, and knowing where she fits in a violent Plains era. Alice's stories are found, as recorded by her grandson, under her burnt-out trading post in South Dakota, then transcribed by the Buffalo Gap Historical Society"-- Provided by publisher. 20220114. Lakota Indians Fiction. Racially mixed women Fiction. Five Star frontier fiction. RV8