Ruthie Fear by Maxim Loskutoff

In the remote Bitterroot Valley of Montana a little girl is left to be raised by her young father. Hers is a rough and tumble beginning and one where she raises herself. Her friends are the creatures in the woods and a little terrier and she reads the land better than most. Her father and his friends live off the bounty of the mountains and valley and do not like the idea of the new celebrities and wealth coming in and fencing off what has been theirs to take until now. Ruthie is fearless, capable and caught between the land she loves and yearning to be like every other girl in the city. A unique blend of Western and a parable on over development of land and natural resources, this is a gritty story of survival and coming of age.