A Woman Tenderfoot.

SETON-THOMPSON, Grace Gallatin.

Item Number: 96523

New York: Doubleday, Page and Co, 1900.

First edition of Grace Seton-Thompson’s first book and tribute to the Rocky Mountain West. Octavo, original illustrated boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt, illustrated with over 150 full-page drawings by Ernest Seton-Thompson and others. Inscribed by the author who has also added a quote from the book on the front free endpaper, “Yours Cordially, Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson March 1901. ‘Think what you like, but unless it be pleasant don’t say it’ ‘Maxim’ ‘a woman tenderfoot’.” Cover, title page, and book design by the author. Scarce and desirable signed.

American author and suffragist Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson's first book, A Woman Tenderfoot describes the author's journey on horseback through the Rocky Mountains. In her introduction, Seton states: "I have used many Western phrases as necessary to the Western setting. I can only add that the events related really happened in the Rocky Mountains..and this is why, being a woman, I wanted to tell about them, in the hope that some going-to-Europe-in-the-summer-woman may be tempted to go to the West instead."