Now Available!
Written by Lucy Foster Miller and edited by Beth Francell, “A Southern Lady in Cow Country: A Love Story” is a memoir and love story from deep in the heart of West Texas.
“In August 1923 Lucy Conoly Foster, from Marlin, Texas and with a degree from the University of Texas in hand and a job there with the Package Loan Library, bought a Fort Model T for a driving adventure west. Accompanied by her mother and two friends she arrived in Fort Davis, Texas after five days on the road. There she met and fell in love with Espy Miller, a local cowboy and aspiring rancher.
A Southern Lady found herself in cow country.”
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“Lucy’s memoir is a treasure. It’s not only interesting to read, but it’s a valuable contribution to our knowledge or strong women and their vital role in settling far West Texas.”
Joe Holley
Pulitzer Prize writer and columnist for the Houston Chronicle and author of Native Texan: Stories from Deep in the Heart
“Lucy’s insightful comments of the ups and downs of her relationships – her spouse, family, and friends – are supremely relatable to a modern audience. Her vivid first hand account of West Texas life both in town and ranch are frank, funny, and poignant. While the book is a love story, it is also a woman’s unvarnished personal story of how rough and rewarding ranch life could be in the early 20th Century.”
LeAnna Schoooley, PhD
Executive Director for Texas Studies, TCU
“An engaging eyewitness account of the establishment of, and life on, one of the large West Texas ranches that are important to this state’s heritage.”
Robert J. Potts
Conservationist and Rancher