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WELL, I GUESS I WAS JUST LUCKY!!
Published by Privately published [Benchmark Printers and Bookbinders], Billings, MT, 1992
Book First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE beneath the author's name as follows: "Leland P. Cade | Aug. 29, 1992." Limited edition. 4to. (8.5 x 11") iv, 1-243p. Profusely (!) illustrated with black and white captioned photos, maps, and drawings. Index. Chapter 16 comprises a chronology. Photo pictorial wrappers printed in blue with a black and white photo on the front cover of a six-horse team pulling some kind of implement and with five black and white photos on the rear cover. The inside of the rear wrapper has a black and white drawing of Cade and a paragraph entitled "About the Author." Just hints of wear to extremities, wrappers clean and bright, corners square and flat, else fine with no internal markings--just in remarkably fine condition given its size and fragility! "This book if rthe lifetime story of two homesteaders, Joseph and Helen Cade. Joe homesteaded in 1911, Helen in 1914. Both homesteaded on the prairie 20 miles north of Lavina, Montana. Both came to Montana from Wisconsin with farm backgrounds. They saw their homesteading area fill with hundreds lof other homesteaders during the 1910s and they saw it go to nearly empty during the 1920s. Two good grain crops in 1914 and the best of his career in 1915, generated optimism and confidence. This led to an extravagant (ass it turned out) investment of $2,000 in an additional 160 acres. During the next 25 years they became acquainted with the real Montana--dry, not predictable, extreme. Their careers began as Wisconsin farmers and ended as Montana ranchers. After homesteading on not much more than a shoestring, two world wars, raising a family of five, one Great Depression, numerous grasshoppers and worm invasions, and one dry year after another, how did NJoe feel? 'Well, I guess I was just lucky.'" [from About The Book] This is the story of pioneers on Tuffley Bench, Musselshell County, Montana. The author, Leland P. Cade is the son of Joseph and Helen Cade about whom he writes. Born on the family homestead in 1925, Leland Cade graduated from Montana State College (1950), worked as a county extension agent in Montana and Alaska, and, in 1969, became Montana editor of the Montana Farmer-Stockman. After retiring in 1987, he began work on this book while also working on the Montana Agricultural Center and Museum at Ft. Benton. An authoritative account of pioneers in Musselshell County, Montana. Leland P. Cade also wrote THE SCHOOLS OF GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTY MONTANA (1997). Signed by Author(s).
