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That Girl Montana

Marah Ellis Ryan

That Girl Montana

Paper book: €30.99

Digital: €6.99

Original publication
1901
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
741
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Adventure, Romance
Moods
Escape it all, Fall in love
Translated from
English

Book summary

Around 1890, on the banks of the Kootenai River, near the border between Canada and the United States, a sixteen-year-old girl who lives among the Native Americans dives into the icy water to save a child. Dan Overton, a guide respected throughout the region, takes her to live in the village of Sinna Ferry, in Idaho.

There she calls herself Montana, refuses to say where she comes from and keeps the secret map of a place rich in gold. The portrait of a free and defiant heroine, in a land of forests and gold prospectors.

This novel of the American West is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

黄金の地にひとりきりの少女。カナダに近いクートネイ川のほとりで、十六歳の少女が凍てつく水に飛びこみ、先住民の小さな男の子を救う。

The world of the book

アメリカとカナダのあいだで。物語の舞台は1890年ごろのアメリカ北西部。クートネイ川は森と雪をかぶった山々のあいだを流れる。カナダから下ってアメリカを通り、ふたたびカナダへ戻っていく。川辺には先住民のクートネイ族が暮らし、魚をとり、カヌーで行き来する。金を探す男たちが谷をくまなく探しまわり、最初の鉄道がやってくる。

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