Compton, Sandy

Mariam Lawton Clayton, 1882 - 1976, was a teacher, amateur geologist, voracious reader, gardener, traveler, a lover of the West and a pioneer woman in the truest sense. She and her husband Earl moved to Western Montana in 1917 onto a 160-acre stump ranch and raised five children as they survived the Depression on home-raised vegetables, fruit, beef and mutton as well as venison, wild berries and fish from their beloved Blue Creek. They were married for 56 years before Earl died in 1966. Mariam herself published three books in her lifetime, "The Little Family," a geneological study of her ances...