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    Maw's Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone
    Maw's Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone
    Maw's Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone
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    Maw's Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone

    By Emerson Hough

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    Emerson Hough was a late 19th century American writer best known for Westerns and historical novels about America. This is one of his most popular books.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateJan 13, 2016
    ISBN9781518368929
    Maw's Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone

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      Maw's Vacation - Emerson Hough

      MAW’S VACATION: THE STORY OF A HUMAN BEING IN THE YELLOWSTONE

      ..................

      Emerson Hough

      FIREWORK PRESS

      Thank you for reading. In the event that you appreciate this book, please consider sharing the good word(s) by leaving a review, or connect with the author.

      This book is a work of nonfiction and is intended to be factually accurate.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by Emerson Hough

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Transcriber’s Note:

      THE STORY OF A HUMAN BEING in the YELLOWSTONE

      The Park-Bound Throng of Maws

      Studies in Mountain Pants

      Maw in War Paint

      In the Grip of the Law

      Enough for Five More

      Old Stanley’s Story

      Spontaneous Eruption

      His Busy Day

      When Bozeman Was Riled

      All Ready for Bud

      Transcriber’s Note:

      Maw’s Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone

      By

      Emerson Hough

      Maw’s Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone

      Published by Firework Press

      New York City, NY

      First published circa 1923

      Copyright © Firework Press, 2015

      All rights reserved

      Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      About Firework Press

      Firework Press prints and publishes the greatest books about American history ever written, including seminal works written by our nation’s most influential figures.

      TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:

      ..................

      Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved.

      Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For a complete list, please see the end of this document.

      THE STORY OF A HUMAN BEING IN THE YELLOWSTONE

      ..................

      by

      EMERSON HOUGH

      AUTHOR OF: The Sagebrusher, Hearts Desire, The Covered Wagon,

      Curly of the Range, etc.

      ILLUSTRATED

      SAINT PAUL

      J. E. HAYNES, Publisher

      1921

      COPYRIGHT 1920

      THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

      COPYRIGHT 1921

      EMERSON HOUGH

      Maw

      Times has changed, says Maw to herself, says she. Things ain’t like what they used to be. Time was when I worked from sunup to sundown, and we didn’t have no daylight-saving contraptions on the old clock, neither. The girls was too little then, and I done all the work myself—cooking, sweeping, washing and ironing, suchlike. I never got to church Sundays because I had to stay home and get the Sunday dinner. Like enough they’d bring the preacher home to dinner. You got to watch chicken—it won’t cook itself. Weekdays was one like another, and except for shoveling snow and carrying more coal I never knew when summer quit and winter come. There was no movies them days—a theater might come twice a winter, or sometimes a temperance

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