The Sheriff's Wife by Patricia Pfeiffer

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Tangled in Montana's Violent Past

In 1862, historical figure, Electa Bryan, comes to a remote Indian Agency in what is now Western Montana to teach Blackfeet children. Instead she finds deprivation and loneliness—until she meets suave, handsome Henry Plummer. Rejecting her sister’s warning, she marries this stranger and moves to the gold rush town of Bannack City. There, they pursue their vision of turning a primitive territory filled with greed, murder and mayhem into a civilized state. As sheriff, Henry is much away from home. Electa is regimented and neglected, but blindly ignores the signs he’s not all he seems—until she meets Pearl.

At Electa’s death in 1912, her son, Vernon Maxwell, inherits an eagle feather and a fortune. He sets out to discover his mother’s hidden past and secure his inheritance, but what is the password?

Part I

“I cried my final tears at my mother’s bedside three days ago as she lay dying. We were always close. The emptiness overwhelmed me when I realized I would never see her again. Three days later, on May 23, 1912, at her burial, I stood beside her grave. Tulips and iris hid the rectangle of disturbed brown earth. A slight breeze sighed through the elms, mirroring my sorrow. I said a final farewell, unaware that an hour later I would discover she had lived a life I never dreamed of—and I would find her again."

Part II

It is the evening of my first day up the Missouri on this steamboat and I am writing in our tiny cabin. In this diary I shall say exactly what I feel. Sometime when I am dead what I write may mean something to someone. I will keep it in the little casket Aunt Minnie gave me before I left. Electa Bryan, missionary