Overview

Take a chance...live life...and laugh! You know you moved to South Dakota from New York City when ice fishing has nothing to do with spearing your frozen daiquiri's strawberry...when dough tends more to cookies and pies than dollars and cents...when aromatherapy deals with fertilizer instead of New Age remedies...when a guy's swollen-looking cheek isn't a toothache - he's chewin' tobacco! Mittman's humorous memoir recounts a city gal's escapades in the Wild West with man, beast, the elements, and the unknown. Suddenly widowed, she decides to experience a different lifestyle. How different? She moves from worldly New York City (population 10 million) to a rural South Dakota farm and ranching town (10,000 people) where she doesn't know a soul. Hilarity ensues as Mittman encounters the sheriff (wait - didn't they disappear with the "talkies?"), a mountain lion, military police, snakes, paramours - and myriad other adventures - that celebrate change and growth. This fun memoir is full of witty observations.