Alice Hammond Brook

I was a lucky child, the youngest of Earl Hammond's five daughters. We lived on a farm near Rowan, Iowa where we had cows, horses, pigs, chickens, cats, dogs and sometime sheep. I heard a lot of great tales about Wyoming and Montana at Hammond family gatherings. Everyone in that family was a joker and storyteller! Grammy Hammond was a tough old lady, not a cookie-baking, come-sit-on-my-lap, grandmother, but she told funny stories about her children and their life out west. My book, "Westward Woman" is fiction based on Grammy's memories written down by a family member back in the 1940's.

My husband and I live in Reno, Nevada, retired after our own adventurous lives. Writing stories about the "old days" keeps me hoping that generations following us will have an idea about how it used to be and who we were.