Book Review #74 - Tomboy Bride

I'm determined to get all caught up with my book reviews. Only three more! Whee!

I read Tomboy Bride as part of a church bookgroup that I decided to crash (it wasn't my ward) with the hopes of being taken up to the Tomboy Mine near Telluride as part of the book's discussion.

The tour of the mine and mountain ghost settlement never happened, but a really fun discussion with a member of a Victorian society present made the entire experience of reading this book a lot more fun than I expected.

As far as the book goes, I was enchanted with Harriet Fish Backus living as a new bride at 11,000 feet elevation in the winter. Her descriptions of an area I can well picture, because it's part of the mountain system where I live, were delightful. Delightful, you say? Yes, because she is a Victorian bride and this was no expose. It was an extremely optimistic, positive view about an unusual, and without a doubt, difficult situation.

The book doesn't stay in Colorado, however, and as the couple moved to British Colombia, Idaho and even back to Colorado, my interest waned. Her positive spin lost a bit of its charm as I more and more wanted to know what it was really like. Still, I loved the Telluride/Tomboy bit.