In 1926, Caroline Lockhart moved from Cody, Wyoming, to a Dryhead, Montana, homestead aiming to live out the “happily ever after” experience she had described in her Western fiction. Though little known today, Lockhart wrote six novels in the 1910s, three of which were made into movies, and all of which culminated in the hero retiring to a cattle ranch. Lockhart based her novels on her real-life experiences — and vice versa. Did a single, liberated woman with a tendency to romanticize succeed at running a 1920s ranch?
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