Saddles & Sawdust
True story about a city-bred family on a cattle ranch in the 1950s
by Ann Eden

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This is a true story about the adventures of the author and her family on their cattle ranch and sawmill in the early 1950’s. It is compelling because this family left an opulent lifestyle in Vancouver, B.C. where the author’s parents were business and social leaders. On the ranch, they adapted to a life with no electricity, no telephones or any city conveniences. They learned that milk came from cows, not the grocery store; that lanterns actually gave light without plugging into the wall; that sometimes it was so cold, gasoline wouldn’t burn! The most compelling part of this story was the author’s mother, a glamorous lady who soon learned to swing an axe, rope cattle, milk cows, drive a lumber truck and become a sawyer on her husband’s sawmill....the ‘fancy lady from Vancouver’ who looked like a Vogue model and became a legend. The story tells about a traumatic injury to the author’s mother, a missing child, an association with a wanted felon, cattle rustlers, marauding wildlife, forest fires, blizzards, and missing parents. Its also a love story (that began in England) between two people who gave their children simple values — to appreciate nature and respect wildlife; to value their ranch animals, especially the horses (who always brought them safely home) and to appreciate the devotion of their dog — a collie/wolf mix — an animal who thwarted danger more than once. Read and enjoy the incredible adventures of this amazing family.

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The author was born into a luxurious life-style in Vancouver, B.C. She attended private school with some of Vancouver’s elite. Her father was a realtor and CEO; her mother was a social leader. They lived in a beautiful home with magnificent landscaped gardens. A change in her father’s health sent the family into a completely different life on a cattle ranch. After leaving the ranch, the author and her family moved back to the coast of B.C. and eventually to Vancouver Island. She married but her husband died suddenly; a second marriage ended in a divorce, but from that union came her only child — a son. She began a 30 year career in festival management and worked with celebrations throughout the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Hawaii. She married a third time and with her husband, brother, son, and daughter-in-law, operates a family business. The author began working on ‘Saddles & Sawdust’ in 2000. After her parents passed, she found her mother’s journal in an old trunk, and used much of that information to finish the book. She is currently working on a second story about children in Amsterdam during World War II. The author writes under the pen name ‘Ann Eden.’

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Ann Eden

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