"In such a place, my father reasoned, a man and his family might live off the land--and so, in October 1933, he moved a wife, a two-year-old daughter, and an infant son into that inhospitable cabin and set about to make it livable."
In many ways Calvert's childhood was an idyllic one, for she woke every morning to the beautiful mountains and forests that surrounded their home. She grew to recognize and appreciate the numerous wild animals that shared the land with them as well. Deer, bears, bobcats, coyotes, beavers, porcupines, and wolverines all made their home in the Little Belt mountains. Even as a child of five or six, Calvert learned how to fish, and she and her brother spent endless hours exploring area mine shafts, woods, and berry patches. "It was a magic world for any child, one in which lodgepole pines grew like arrows toward a sky that seemed always blue. When I was older I had a sassy little horse named Redbird to ride, a collie named Bruno to keep me company, and a calico cat named Agamemnon to sleep at the foot of my bed," Calvert remarked in SAAS.
Struggles with Dyslexia
In 1937 the Freeman family relocated to less isolated realms so that the children could attend public school (though they still spent large blocks of time back at Big Timber Creek in subsequent years).
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