Lillian and Anna Hovick, 1918, Powder River, MT. Cowgirl sisters.
Anna’s granddaughter, Valerie Nelson, Jorgenson and Lillian’s granddaughter, Lillian Crook (recreated the photo) Sunday Creek, MT 2023
I have a “thing” about visiting places named: Crook, Garland, Marian, etc. I am the middle daughter of Marian and Garland Crook.
My Miles City Airbnb.
Anna Nelson’s house in Miles City, Mont.
Emma Hovick’s house in Miles City, Mont.
Out to the Sunday Creek homestead of Maren and Kjelv Hovick, north of Miles City, Mont.
Back roads home via Lame Deer, Ekalaka, Baker, Marmarth, Rhame. One hundred miles or so of gravel, filled with marvel that our grandmas road this country on horseback, herding cows.
Powder River.
Baker, Mont.
Hovick siblings (Anna, Lawrence or Helmer, and Emma).
My Mother, upper row, second from the left. Rhame (N.D.) High School.
Lillian Mabel Hovick Silbernagel, who my Mother chose to name me for, who my Mother said “could make a horse purr.”
My Mother and her sister, Junette.
The Hovicks in South Dakota.
The Hovick sisters in South Dakota.
Maren and Kjelv Hovick and their daughter, Lillian, Clark, S.D.
Lark Buntings and Meadowlark everywhere. Scarcely a vehicle. Power River.
