People from our Past - Mildred Chaffin

In 1987, the Seeley Lake Writers Club started a project that two years later — in time for Montana's Centennial — was published as the book "Cabin Fever." This remains the best compilation of articles and interviews of the first 100 years of the Seeley Lake area. One of the key figures in the writers group was Mildred Chaffin. We have read many of the fascinating stories she wrote, but her own life makes for quite a story as well!

Mildred was born in Evaro in 1908, back when Evaro seemed to be even more remote from Missoula than it is today (a steep winding road traveled up Evaro Hill, not the...

 

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