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Living alone in the woods of northern Minnesota, Mona Bell once amazed a neighbor by shooting a dozen clothes pins off a line at 25 yards, firing revolvers from both hands in rapid succession. You tell the boys theres a woman back here who knows how to shoot, and will shoot, she said, calmly. He did.Eccentric, aggressive, frugal, and friendly to a point, Monas few neighbors sensed she was a woman with a past, perhaps a notorious past, but no one asked. In fact, her reclusive life in Minnesota was stark contrast to her earlier life in Oregon, where she had a brief, public role in Pacific Northwest history, battling the federal government after the Army commandeered her hilltop mansion and surrounding riverfront acreage in the Columbia River Gorge to build Bonneville Dam.Monas impressive mansion 40 miles east of Portland, Oregon, was built in 1928 as a gift from her lover, the flamboyant entrepreneur Sam Hill, whose lasting works include the Maryhill Museum and the Columbia River Highway. That same year, their child, a boy, was born in Portland.Three years later Sam, 33 years Monas senior, was dead. The government condemned the mansion she loved, offering compensation Mona would deri

Author

Harrison, John A.

Publisher

Frank Amato Publications, Incorporated

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781571884527

Rating

4.8 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14