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Under the Gallus Frame is the story of Marija, who is forced to leave her sweetheart Gus in Croatia in 1889 to marry a selfish, violent man in the rough-and-ready mining town of Butte, Montana. She transforms herself from an illiterate immigrant to owner, with a re-emerged Gus, of a thriving business and Matriarch of the Bartolji family. Her four children become leaders in The Company, The Miners' Union, The Church - and a hopeless drunk.

Produktbeschreibung
Under the Gallus Frame is the story of Marija, who is forced to leave her sweetheart Gus in Croatia in 1889 to marry a selfish, violent man in the rough-and-ready mining town of Butte, Montana. She transforms herself from an illiterate immigrant to owner, with a re-emerged Gus, of a thriving business and Matriarch of the Bartolji family. Her four children become leaders in The Company, The Miners' Union, The Church - and a hopeless drunk.
Autorenporträt
Darlene Matule, a Montana native, met her husband Steve at college in Spokane, Washington. Their love story was featured in the Gonzaga Magazine recently in an article titled Dating Through the Decades. After a trip to Croatia, Matule wrote two historical novels melding the old country with Butte, Montana--Under the Gallus Frame (2005) and Framework of a Family (2012).