7/6/2023 0 Comments The whistling season![]() ![]() In Butte, he intends to make his fortune in the copper mines. This time he’s getting off the train in Butte, MT having spent the intervening ten years in Tasmania. In the next book, Work Song, we catch up with Morrie again in 1919. Morrie ends up teaching for the year in the one room schoolhouse, where he changes most every student’s life. The headline of her newspaper advertisement-“Can’t cook but doesn’t bite.” (wordsmith Morrie’s idea)-had caught their collective eye. The plot begins, immediately thickening, as Rose introduces Morrie as her brother (a convenient switch from in-law) to the widower Milliron and his three sons who have hired her as housekeeper. In The Whistling Season, we first meet Morrie in 1909, as he alights from the train near Marias Coulee, a tiny Montana hamlet, with his deceased brother’s wife Rose. This is not the real-life story of a Western legend, but it sure feels like it should be. ![]() ![]() Part charmer, part encyclopedia, part big city con artist escaped to the frontier, Morrie Morgan (aka Morgan Llewellyn) is a lovable rascal, not above stretching the law even as he wins the hearts of his K-8 ranch kid students, his landlady, a motley band of union copper miners, a librarian with a past, and his readers. It is part three of the saga of Morrie Morgan who readers follow as he cuts a swath across the Montana plains. ![]() I scooped up Ivan Doig’s latest, Sweet Thunder,as soon as I discovered it had come out in late summer. ![]()
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