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“Bronze Inside and Out” by Mary Strachan Scriver
A biography of the late Montana sculptor Bob Scriver by his former wife Mary Strachan Scriver.
By Ellen Mahoney, Guest Writer, 6-20-08
Bronze Inside and Out: A Biographical Memoir of Bob Scriver
By Mary Strachan Scriver
368 pages, University of Calgary Press, $44.95
When Mary Strachan moved to Browning, Montana in August, 1961 to teach school, she didn’t imagine that one day she’d sleep with a cat, dog, gopher, badger, a few bobcats, a couple of foxes and an eccentric artist twice her age. But that’s exactly what happened when she met and married Bob Scriver who was residing and working as a bronze sculptor on the Montana Blackfeet Reservation.
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