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In the summer of 1871, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack married Fayette Washington Roe, fresh out of West Point, and left the East behind to join his infantry regiment at Fort Lyon, Colorado, where her sprightly account of frontier life begins. As a western army wife Frances Roe found herself in the shadow of the Rockies--Lt. Roe was stationed at Piegan Agency, Montana Territory, as well as in the Cheyenne country of Colorado and Indian Territory--and her book is filled with the beauty of the wilderness. She records the problems of camp and garrison life with servants, sand, and shortages, and the pleasures of parties and new friends, of hunting, fishing, and camping trips, and of long romps with her dog Hal. One chapter reports a fine summer's outing to twelve-year-old Yellowstone National Park in 1884. In the cavalcade of men's western memoirs, books written by frontier women have too often gone unheralded and almost unnoticed. Yet women were among the keenest observers of the nineteenth-century West and its inhabitants, as seen nowhere better than in Frances Roe's vivid account of life with the western army.
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Psychologists, says Fleming, have a name for it: social anxiety. Attacks occur on entering a room full of strangers, on having to make a speech, and in similar situations. Few if any teenagers are immune to attacks; the question is whether a book of this sort can ease them. Fleming covers every occasion from behavior at a formal dinner (don't reach) to how to ask for a date--or turn one down--to how to overcome mumbling, word swallowing, and other poor speech habits. The book abounds in celebrity anecdotes, either for emulation (in interviews, behave as Sandra Day O'Connor did before the Senate confirmation committee) or as assurance that you are not alone. (Offstage, Johnny Carson is so ill at ease that he rarely goes to parties; when he does go he comes late, leaves early, and says little. This should reassure the ordinary wallflower?) There is a sensible quote from Erich Fromm to the effect that our psychic task is not to feel secure but to tolerate insecurity--and a corny one from the musical Annie: ""You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile."" Very possibly some ill-at-ease party-goer or public speaker might latch on to a particular tip or two in sheer desperation; but for the most part this is a mixture of the obvious but easier-said-than-done (don't be afraid to say ""count me out"" when the gang goes dragracing or shoplifting) and the hopelessly square. (In most teen groups, a pathetic conversation opener such as ""I see you're wearing running shoes. Do you run?"" just opens the asker to a response like ""Only away from creeps like you."") Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.