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Nannie T. Alderson
Born	Nannie Tiffany (1860-09-14)September 14, 1860 Union, West Virginia, U. S.
Died	September 12, 1947(1947-09-12) (aged 86) Sheridan, Wyoming
Occupations	Rancher memoirist
Notable work	A Bride Goes West (1939)

Nannie Tiffany Alderson (September 14, 1860 – September 12, 1947) was an American rancher and memoirist known for her 1939 memoir A Bride Goes West.

Childhood

Nannie Tiffany was born on September 14, 1860, in Union, West Virginia, to Hugh Tiffany, a Confederate military officer, and his wife Susan McDaniel.

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Adulthood

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Later life

She died on September 12, 1947, at Eaton Ranch near Sheridan, Wyoming.

Legacy

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There have been readers and literary critics that have praised Alderson's memoir. A 1980 Pacific Historical Review article called A Bride Goes West one of the "better examples" of writings about female experiences in western ranching. In 1982, a survey of Montana: The Magazine of Western History readers ranked A Bride Goes West the 39th best book about Montana, with one respondent calling it "the best of all personal narratives". When the magazine repeated the survey in 2002, the aggregated responses rated A Bride Goes West 63rd best. Critic Julia Watson praised Alderson's memoir for "inscribing both the transience and the intensity of the moment in a time of profound historical transition" Literature professor O. Alan Weltzien called A Bride Goes West a "pioneering memoir of enduring literary value".

A Bride Goes West was an influence among memoirs of Montana. Ivan Doig, Montanan author of the 1978 memoir This House of Sky, said A Bride Goes West was among the memoirs that influenced his writing. Later Montana women's memoirs, such as Mary Clearman Blew's 1991 All but the Waltz and Judy Blunt's 2002 Breaking Clean, echoed A Bride Goes West's theme of frustration with strict gender roles that discouraged women from regularly participating in equestrianism and other male-coded outdoor tasks.

Sources

• Alderson, Jeanie (2023). "A Bride Goes West—and Stays". A Bride Goes West (First New ed.). University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9781496235077.
• Alderson, Nannie T.; Smith, Helena Huntington (2023). A Bride Goes West (First New ed.). University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9781496235077.
• Bevis, William (Spring 1989). "Nannie Alderson's Frontiers—and Ours". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 39 (2): 29–33. JSTOR 4519214.
• Bevis, William (2003). Ten Tough Trips: Montana Writers and the West (Paperback ed.). University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3601-4.
• Bevis, William (2009). "Feminism and Postmodernism in the New West: Mary Blew and Montana Women's Writing Since 1990". In Harrison, Brady (ed.). All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 78–100. ISBN 978-0-8032-1390-6.
• Floyd, Janet (2002). Writing the Pioneer Woman. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1381-2.
• Fritz, Harry W. (Winter 1982). "The Best Books about Montana: A Reader's Guide to the Treasure State". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 32 (1): 52–62. JSTOR 4518634.
• Fritz, Harry W. (Autumn 2002). "The Best Books About Montana, Twenty-first-century Edition". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 52 (3): 73–77. JSTOR 4520449.
• Hargreaves, Mary W. M. (1993). "Women in the Agricultural Settlement of the Northern Plains". In Cott, Nancy F. (ed.). Working on the Land. History of Women in the United States: Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. Vol. 6. K. G. Saur Verlag. pp. 275–285. doi:10.1515/9783110978162.275. ISBN 3-598-41460-9.
• Henshaw, Anne (March 4, 2014). "Nannie Alderson: Pioneer Ranchwoman". Montana Women's History. Montana Historical Society.
• Hymowitz, Carol; Weissman, Michaele (1978). A History of Women in America. Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-26914-3.
• Jackson-Abernathy, Brenda K. (February 2013). "Methods in Teaching Region and Diversity in U. S. Western Women's History". The History Teacher. 46 (2): 215–229. JSTOR 43265159.
• Jensen, Joan A.; Miller, Darlis A. (May 1980). "The Gentle Tamers Revisited: New Approaches to the History of Women in the American West". Pacific Historical Review. 49 (2): 173–213. doi:10.2307/3638899. JSTOR 3638899.
• McFarland, Ron (2008). The Rockies in First Person: A Critical Study of Recent American Memoirs from the Region. McFarland and Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-3717-7.
• Morton, Oren F. (1916). A History of Monroe County, West Virginia. The McClure Company.
• Ronald, Ann (Summer 1979). "Western Women Writing". Western American Literature. 14 (2): 171–174. doi:10.1353/wal.1979.0104.
• Sallquist, Sylvia Lea (Summer 1984). "The Image of the Hired Girl in Literature: The Great Plains, 1860 to World War I". Great Plains Quarterly. 4 (3): 166–176. JSTOR 23531224.
• Shirley, Gayle C. (2011). "Nannie T. Alderson, Homestead Bride". More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women. Globe Pequot Press. pp. 53–60. ISBN 978-0-7627-6692-5.
• Watson, Julia (2003). "Engendering Montana Lives: Women's Autobiographical Writing". In Newby, Rick; Hunger, Suzanne (eds.). The New Montana Story: An Anthology. Riverbend Publishing. ISBN 9781931832298.
• Weltzien, O. Alan (2011). Witschi, Nicholas S. (ed.). A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781444396591.ch8. ISBN 978-1-4051-8733-6.
• Whittenburg, Clarice (November 1948). "The Frontier Schoolma'am on Ranch and Homestead". The Educational Forum. 13 (1): 79–89. doi:10.1080/00131724809341942.
• "Woman Author Dies". Salt Lake Tribune. September 14, 1947. p. 4.