The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig

\Can't cook but doesn't bite.\ So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an \A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition\ that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. That unforgettable season deposits the ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise of the Big Ditch--a gargantuan irrigation project intended to make the Montana prairie..