Memoir
Date Published: 06-30-2025
Publisher: She Writes Press
Having spent ten summers on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near
Glacier National Park, part of her doctoral fieldwork for a PhD in Native
American Art History, forty-two-year-old Lynne Spriggs thinks of Montana as
her healing place. When she moves to “Big Sky Country” from the
East Coast in a quest to reset her life, she has high hopes for what awaits
her.
Great Falls, a farming and military town in central Montana, is not what Lynne imagined when she decided to leave city life behind. But her dream of being more connected to nature in the American West comes alive when she meets Harrison, a handsome rancher thirteen years her senior. Wary but curious, with her dog Willow by her side, she leans into the seasonal rhythms of Harrison’s hidden valley and opens her heart to a wild language that moves beyond words. In a modern world where listening is rare, Elk Love explores an intimate place where loneliness gives way to wonder, where the natural world speaks of what matters most.
Review
When you leave your comfort zone you often find more of yourself than you expected. That's the main thing I took from this and we learn this through Lynne Spriggs O'Connor opening herself and her own personal journey to us.
It’s a remarkable bit of storytelling as O'Connor courageously shares her truth and shines a light on how she healed in a way that helps the reader.
I enjoyed the authors ability to balance her story with wit and humor.
About the Author
Before moving to the rural West at age forty-two, Lynne Spriggs O'Connor
curated exhibitions of folk and self-taught art at the High Museum in Atlanta.
She spent ten summers on northern Montana’s Blackfeet Indian reservation
while pursuing fieldwork for her PhD in Native American Art History at
Columbia University. She also worked in the film industry as Production
Coordinator for Spalding Gray and Jonathan Demme on the iconic Swimming to
Cambodia. After landing in Montana, she curated Bison: American Icon, a major
permanent exhibit for the Charlie Russell Museum on bison in the Northern
Plains. Elk Love is her first memoir. For the past fifteen years, she and her
husband have lived on a cattle ranch in an isolated Montana mountain valley
east of the Rockies, where her life centers on writing, animals, and family.
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