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Show During this time she also began submitting poetry to magazines In New York. After selling Harvey Natchees some of her poems she decided to move to A hero Of World War II' York in 1929. McG~ nleyh eld an assortment o he believed in education. there, lncludlng copywriter for an advertis~ ng agency, teacher in a jun~ orh igh school In New One of the first Amer~ cansto enter Berlin in the Rochelle, and staff wrlter for Town and Country. final days of World War I1 was Harvey Natchees, a Marr~ agea nd stabll~ tyw ere extremely important Ute Ind~ an. B orn on May 26, 1920, ~ n Altonah, to her after a childhood of frequent moves and Duchecne County, to Edward and Vera Loney " never having a real home." In 1934 she met Natchees, he attended Roosevelt High School and Charles L. Hayden who worked for the Bell was reportedly ~ t sfi rst Ind~ ang raduate. On June Telephone Company during the day and 29, 1940, he marr~ ed Clara Areep at Fort jazz piano in the evenlng. She found the fact that he Duchcsne. played in a jazz band unsettling, fearing that do- In 1942 Harvey enlisted ~ n the U. S. Army and mestlc life would not be his main concern; was on hls way to France shortly after D- Day As a however, they eventually married on June 25, mcmber ot a reconnaissance battallon ~ n the 3rd 1937, and had two daughters. Armored Division, he part~ c~ pate~ dnm any battles. Noted for her light, whimsical verse, McGinley HIS valor was recogn~ zed wlth a S~ lver Star, a had, early in her career, been given some advice Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart wlth oak leaf by Kather~ neW hite, a New Yorker fiction editor: cluster. When the German cap~ talf ell to Allled " Dear Miss McGinley: We are buying your poem, forces In spring 1945, Natchees was featured in but why do you sing the same sad songs many newspapers as the first Amer~ can ~ n Berl~ n. poets sing?" She changed her style to light verse. He later took Un~ ted Press journal~ sts on a jeep McGinley's prose and verse appeared i tour of conquered territory. publ~ cat~ onHs. e r first book of verse, On the Con- Discharged from the Army In October 1945, trary, was publ~ shed in 1934, followed by seven- Natchees returned to the U~ ntah- Ouray Rescrva-teen more book She received the Pulit~ ar P r i z tlon On July 24, 1946, thls war hero and his wife, for her book of light verse Tlnles Three: Clara, rode ~ n the P~ oneer Day parade ~ n Salt Lake Verse from Three Deca City and rece~ vedth e cheers of thousands. Poenis ( 1960) in 196 1. A rancher, a member of the Ute Tribe business The strength of Ph~ lllsM cGinley's a committee, and superintendent of the tr~ be'sw ater her support of the housewife and the department, Natchecs also worked to promote cd ucation as a solution to many problems faclng h ~ s market. Her book S~ xpencem people. He d~ edon June IS, 1980, of a heart attack was written as a direct response to Betty Friedan' and was buried in the Fort Duchesne Cemetery best- selling book The Feminine Mys with military honors. whlch proposed the idea that a col woman could never find true home. Sixpence stated an Katherine Feglltsn Nutter one that McGinley's own l ~ f eha d b She came west as a telegrapher that educated women could fit ha and became Utah's cattle queen. framework of the home. Sixpence sold o 100,000 copies and remained on the When Kather~ neF enton Nutter d~ edin Salt Lake for several months. City on July 17, 1965, at age 94, the Salt Lake She wrote of herself: Tribune called her " perhaps the last of the West's few-~ utting sugar In my SOUP is the cattle queens " Whether she was the last of her think of at the moment- a breed is debatable; that she was Indeed queen of a the trade as a ' good, rel~ able wor vast cattle operation 1s unquestionable. always make a deadl~ ne I am n She was born on March 12, 1871, ~ n Ceylon, labor palnstaklngly on every plece I do. " Ohlo, to Maur~ ce and Catharine Morgan Fenton. Her last book, Saint Watching, was published In Educated at the Sisters of the Holy Cross School In 1969. After her husband d~ edin 1972, she moved South Bend, Ind~ ana, s he then came west to work from her beloved suburbs to an apartment In New as a telegrapher and eventually managed the Postal York Clty. She d~ edFe bruary 22, 1978. Telegraph Company's off~ ceIn Colorado Springs, Note: Natchees and Nutter'are pictured on the cover. a town that was boomlng because of mining actlv- ~ t y~ n n earby Cr~ ppleC reek. 22 |
