The Road Between: a memoir

The writing is beautiful, the memories of a young girl growing up on the windswept prairies of Alberta on an Indian reserve during the Great Depression, the dust-bowl, and WWII are poignant.

Florence Bell Ore, who now lives and writes from Pony, Montana, shares her memories, revealing many details of places and times in Canadian history. Florence had to sort out her own ideals and beliefs from the three very different cultures that formed her life—from the very proper English morals and customs of her maternal grandmother, to those of the Siksika tribe of the Blackfoot Indians who came to the residential school where her uncle was principal and her father the farm manager, to the elementary school in the town of Gleichen where she walked snowy roads to learn Canadian customs and accents. As she says, "A landscape of grass blowing under a dome of sky became the constant reality used by this Canadian child to forger her own identity."

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Ride the Jawbone: a historical legal mystery

Over a hundred years ago, Richard A. Harlow, for whom Harlowton, Montana was named, saw the need for a railroad to connect mining and ranching communities with the world, via the Northern Pacific at Lombard. He financed and built the Montana Railway by persuasive jawboning. Twelve years ago, rancher and attorney, Jim Moore, observed the decaying railroad bed left over from Harlow’s “Jawbone Railroad,” and thought, “Someone should write a story about it.” He took on the task. A year ago, Janet Hill, president of Raven Publishing, Inc. read Jim’s manuscript and decided it was a story that should be shared. Later this summer, or early fall, the book will be in print for anyone to read. It is already available in Amazon's Kindle Store and on Smashwords.com as an e-book

You won’t want to miss the intriguing tale about a young, newly-minted lawyer who takes on the seemingly impossible task of defending of a loathsome vagrant accused of murdering a beautiful young woman and throwing her body from the train. Interwoven in this story is an accurate, well-researched history of the era, 1902, with details or ranching practices, transportation modes, and the social and business life in the small towns that sprang up along the course of the Jawbone in its route through Sixteen-mile Canyon, over the pass between the Little Belt and the Castle Mountains, and on to Two Dot in the Musselshell River Valley.