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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

淘金之地的孤身少女。在靠近加拿大的库特奈河畔,一个十六岁的少女跳进冰冷的河水,救起一个印第安小男孩。

The world of the book

在美国与加拿大之间。故事发生在1890年前后的美国西北部。库特奈河穿过森林和积雪的群山。它从加拿大流下,流经美国,又流回加拿大。印第安民族库特奈人生活在河岸边,他们捕鱼,乘独木舟往来。淘金者在山谷间四处搜寻,第一条铁路也修到了这里。

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