Book Discussion with author Nan Weber: Mattie: A Woman's Journey West

**UPDATE** Nan Weber, the author, will be joining us at this event!

Not unlike today, life for women in the nineteenth century served up hearty challenges on a daily basis, though the burdens of 100 years ago certainly were of a different flavor. Mattie: A Woman's Journey West offers a taste of that life through he story of Martha "Mattie" Shipley Culver, whose life passage took her from her childhood in industrial New England and work in the New York textile Industry to her role as the wife of a winter caretaker in Yellowstone National Park, where she died and was buried in 1889, at the age of 32. After discovering Mattie's grave, between Nez Perce Creek and the Firehole River, author Nan Weber followed her own curiosities through four years of research to trace the steps of this mystery woman's spirited life.

This book is available used at your favorite used book shops or it's available on Amazon. You can also purchase the book new from the author's website.

The author's website has a couple videos of Mattie's grave and personal possessions.