Overview

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 Ford 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 cowboy and aspiring rancher.

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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 firsthand 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 Schooley, PhD, Executive Director, Center 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

Author Information

Lucy Foster Miller was a writer and active member of the Fort Davis community. Beth Francell, the oldest grandchild of Lucy and Espy Miller, was raised in Midland but spent time in Fort Davis with her Lucy, especially after Espy died. She graduated with honors from the University of Texas, was a founding member of the Wichita County Heritage Society using her talents to create state historic markers for Wichita Falls. She was the founding Director of the Ferrill-Wilson Museum, a living history farm, in Plano, Texas. She attended the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington and in 1996 she and her husband purchased her grandparent's historic home in Fort Davis. For twenty-five years, following Lucy's love of gardening, she owned REBloom Designs. Currently, when not researching family history and gardening, she pursues her other passion, painting in pastel.

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