Ann Strange Owl

From her birth in a one-room cabin the 1930s on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana Ann Strange Owl's memoir chronicles her remarkable life through BIA boarding school to her escape from the reservation as a dental assistant to being a contestant in the first Miss Indian America contests in Sheridan WY. Her ancestral stories cover much of the history of the West from a personal perspective. She tells of her illegal marriage to a white man a career as an entrepreneur actress model and world traveler. Her path led her finally to ownership of a most unique trading post Eagle Plume's near Estes Park CO. Rich in photographs and historical information hers is a unique tale and a fascinating slice of Native American and Western history.