Tomboy Bride by Harriet Fish Backus If you ever thought of memoirs as a boring genre, I encourage you to sample Harriet Fish Backus’ Tomboy Bride. It is anything but boring. “Tomboy” refers to the Tomboy Mine, located above Telluride, Colorado, and “bride” is the author Harriet who moved there in 1906 immediately after her … Continue reading Tomboy Bride: One Woman’s Personal Account of Life in the Mining Camps of the West