Bushy : a romance founded on fact by Cynthia May Westover Alden
"Bushy" by Cynthia May Westover Alden is a frontier adventure novel written in the late 19th century. It follows Bushy Sukolt, a spirited miner’s daughter growing up in a Rocky Mountain camp, whose grit, resourcefulness, and devotion to her father and animal companions guide her through the hazards and camaraderie of frontier life. Blending fact-based episodes with lively storytelling, it offers a child’s-eye view of mining work, danger, and rough-hewn kindness. The
opening of the novel follows Bushy from Iowa to a remote Rocky Mountain mining settlement after her father’s business collapse and her mother’s death, with the child insisting on going along—cat in tow. Life in camp is perilous: during a night escape to a fort she smuggles her cat and loses him, later saves the miners by smothering a fallen lamp before it reaches an open powder keg (breaking her collarbone), and halts a lynch mob by climbing onto the condemned man with a cocked revolver. She rides out alone to find her father buried by a snow-slide and brings rescuers; Rover the dog hauls her from a hidden water hole; and she helps the crew survive a sudden flood while riding and roping with calm precision. Further episodes show her frontier schooling—killing a rattlesnake and self-treating a bite, joining a buffalo hunt, and ambushing a mounted attacker to protect her father, with Rover finishing the fight. Together these early chapters sketch a fearless, capable child forged by rugged work, quick wits, and a tight-knit camp. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Alden, Cynthia May Westover, 1862-1931 |
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| Illustrator | Walker, J. A. |
| LoC No. | 21020578 |
| Title | Bushy : a romance founded on fact |
| Original Publication | New York: The Morse Company, 1896. |
| Credits | Richard Hulse, Ed Foster, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Historical fiction |
| Subject | Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Subject | Girls -- Fiction |
| Subject | Miners -- Fiction |
| Subject | Frontier and pioneer life -- Rocky Mountains -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78043 |
| Release Date | Feb 26, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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