Fairlee E. Winfield

From Historical Novel Society Reviews:

Young Norwegian immigrant Ovidia Odegard expects to find buffalo when she signs on as Cowboy Artist Charlie Russell's hired girl. Instead, she finds Indians more educated than most whites, social order as stratified as Eastern society, and an assortment of boozers and bamboozlers, women chasers, and gamblers.
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From Western Writers of America in Roundup, February, 2008

Young Norwegian immigrant Ovidia Odegard expects to find buffalo, the enduring symbol of the American West, when she signs on as Charles and Nancy Russell's hired girl. Instead, she finds Indians more educated than most of the whites, social order as stratified as Eastern society in this proper Victorian age, and an assortment of boozers and bamboozlers, women chasers, and gamblers. In fact, Ovidia is quick to catch on to games of chance, which helps her repay the cost of passage to this confusing, but not so Wild West. But even Ovidia balks at the chicanery when she suspects the gigantic mural commissioned for the Montana State House is not painted by the great Charlie Russell, but by one of his students. Can this possibly be true? ---CKC --
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***** Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
A flowing read from start to finish, "Buffaloed" is great novel of the old west, February 11, 2009

The West wasn't nearly as romantic as it was depicted to be. "Buffaloed" follows Ovidia Odegard, a new immigrant to the United States in the early twentieth century. Finding herself under the wing of famed old Western artist Charlie Russell, Ovidia learns quickly about the harsh truth of the old west, and does so in a delightful fashion. A flowing read from start to finish, "Buffaloed" is great novel of the old west.
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