A book of Montana stories, recipes, old time remedies, cartoons, and western potpourri.

Gladiola offers a familiar brand of trademark western wit and universal truth--never failing to hit the funny bone and strike the heart. GRIT AND GUMPTION will bring a twinkle to the eye of western humor enthusiasts, Gladiola Montana fans, and cowgirls alike! Real advice from one classy lady to another.

A vilified man. An uptight schoolmistress. Can opposites truly find love or will their unlikely attraction lead to misery? Tobias Sutton understands the whims of fate. Finally blessed with a second chance, he has no interest in squandering the love of his family and friends after decades apart from them. However, Alvira Damon irritates and intrigues him as no woman ever has. She’s prim and proper and clings to a wit that hides a vulnerability he yearns to witness. He wishes he were a better man. A man she’d trust enough to share her true self with. Alvira Damon has no interest in romance. She is a no-nonsense schoolteacher, focused on her students and little else. Understanding her responsibilities, she refuses to renege on them. Against her better judgment, Alvira incites a war of words with the local Mercantile owner, Tobias Sutton, and she’s never felt more invigorated in her life. Alvira knows she should avoid him, but her interactions with Tobias make her feel truly alive for the first time in her life. Against all rational argument, Alvira yearns for what Tobias claims he doesn’t want: to be his wife. When Alvira learns of his past transgressions, will fear and doubt destroy the tender feelings blooming in her heart or will Tobias finally find a woman strong enough to accept him, past and all? Immerse yourself in 1880’s Bear Grass Springs, Montana Territory! Bear Grass Springs Series: Montana Untamed (BGS, #1) Cailean and Annabelle Montana Grit (BGS, #2) Alistair and Leticia Montana Maverick (BGS, #3) Ewan and Jessamine Montana Renegade (BGS, #4) Warren and Helen Jubilant Montana Christmas (BGS, #5) Leena and Karl Montana Wrangler (BGS #6), Sorcha and Frederick Unbridled Montana Passion (BGS, #7) Fidelia and Bears Montana Vagabond (BGS, #8) Helen and Ben Exultant Montana Christmas (BGS, #9) Jessamine and Ewan Lassoing a Montana Heart (BGS, #10) Slims and Davina Healing Montana Love (BGS, #11) Dalton and Charlotte Runaway Montana Groom (BGS, #12) Philomena and Peter Substitute Montana Bride (BGS, #13) Tobias and Alvira! Enraptured Montana Bachelor (BGS, #14), Coming late 2021!

The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country.