"The DAYES of Wyoming" is a historic novel featuring horse trainer, Bertha, and mountain man, Charlie Daye. Their adventures take place during the late 1800s to early 1900s in northern Wyoming, from Johnson County, east of the Bighorns, to Yellowstone, west of the Continental Divide.
This was an exciting time of change in Wyoming: Wyoming Territory was admitted into the Union; the end of the trappers' rendezvous precipitated a decline in the fur trade and mountain men; Wyoming's Civil War took place in Johnson County; with Yellowstone recently declared a national park, Cody became a thriving communit as its eastern entrance, and work began on the Shoshone Dam, later known as the Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir. Hundred of thousands of bison no longer dotted the Wyoming landscape and the disappearance was soon followed by the extinction of wolves and severly diminished herds of wild mustangs.
Bertha and Charlie Daye experienced it all, and more . . . from guiding eastern guests into remote mountain paradises, rounding up wild horses, and riding in thrilling overland horse races, to adopting children who traveled west on one of the famous Orphan Trains.
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Reviews for "The DAYES of Wyoming"
Reviewed by Mustang Lady
6/5/2010
What a nice story, sometimes thrilling, sometimes sentimental, sometimes informative, always interesting.
I love horses, history and the West and found this book suited my reading taste perfectly.
Thanks Patricia, great book.
Reviewed by George Pratt
5/17/2010
Liked this book as I love Wyoming. Ms Gott depicts the era, situations and way of life very realistically in this book. I'm a horseman, longtime cowboy, and a wanna be mountain man.
Keep up the good writing.
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