33 miles by horseback to her first job as a teacher in remote Athabasca, Alberta, Cloe Day becomes a share cropper in the Dirty Thirties when she receives a 30-acre homestead in lieu of her teacher's pay.  The day after the birth of her first, she rides 36 miles home with her baby tied around her neck. In 1946 she moves to Gibsons only to be greeted by the taunting of students 'Women couldn't teach us anything!' Tough, fiesty and outspoken, Cloe wallops, throws wastebaskets, and holds her students over the side of a boat as they upchuck in a storm. This and other tales that will surprise you and have you smiling at a memorable woman who toughed it out in the West.