The Queen of the Legal Tender Saloon

by Eileen Clarke

A Greyclliff Montana novel. A young woman heads west and finds a home and family of friends. Murder and a dramatic trial makes for compelling reading. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962666351
• ISBN13: 9780962666353
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Greycliff Publishing Company
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Queen of the Legal Tender Saloon

An intimate portrayal of a young woman's pilgrimage to small town rustic Montana. Ms. Clarke captures the essence of this close knit community with endearing characters in search of good times amidst their struggles. A lively story with true grit, heart and soul.

queen of the legal tender saloon

Queen of the Legal Tender Saloon is a refreshing, insightful look not just at modern life in Montana, but at life and love, personal growth and a woman making it on her own in the world of cowboy lore. Author Eileen Clake writes as powerfully as Pam Houston, with insight and strength wrapped around lifelike characters that have the same wants and needs, strengths and weaknesses found in all of us, yet tempered by the world of the modern cowboy. You can't help but to get hooked on the prose, captured by the plot. It's the perfect companion with which to curl up by the fireplace on a long winter weekend.

Montana honestly

What a wonderful idea: Montana through the eyes of a dental assistant. The Big Sky State is, after all, comprised far more of civil servants and teachers and CNA's and truck drivers than the cowboys and far-sighted writers that we tend to idolize. Thank goodness for a well-spoken author who looks at Montana's foibles through the eyes of a believable character. Thank goodness, too, for a fine portrait of a Montana town and valley. And bravo for the cover artwork. What a relief to find a bold artistic cover statement--as opposed to another look-alike muted dust jacket!

Got hot by the trial..

The book started moving by the time I got to the trial. The cover however, leaves something to be desired. I mean I know all the old bla bla about not judging a book by the cover, and that stands true here. Make it past the sad attempt at a cover and find a great story hidden inside. -If that is, you can deal with that "uppity, sage-brush and beat-up truck Montana stuff. Why do all of those Montana writers get off on that stuff?? ;>