![]() ![]() However, her last child was born and died during the great flu pandemic of 1918. Her first child, Hattie, barely escaped death from an infected tooth, and her second child, a boy, was born healthy. In her classic memoir Tomboy Bride (1969) she describes great happiness as well as times of violence and sorrow. Harriet's love for her husband and their home sustained her throughout hardships such as hunger, isolation, accidents, and disastrous avalanches. They braved their new environment with its constant snow (up to 20 feet at a time) and dangerous high altitude. Together they moved to Telluride, Colorado, where George had obtained a job at a mine operating in the Tomboy Basin, 11,000 feet above seal level. In 1908, Harriet Fish, a teacher from the San Francisco Bay area, married her high school sweetheart, George Backus, an assayer and mine engineer. ![]()
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