Hallie Erminie Rives

Hallie Erminie Rives was a bestselling popular novelist and wife of the American diplomat Post Wheeler.

She was born in Kentucky, the daughter of Stephen Turner Rives and Mary Ragsdale. Her father was from a prominent Virginia family. She was a distant cousin of the novelist and poet Amlie Rives Troubetzkoy. An authors biography in one of her books notes that her father, who had fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War and spent two years in a Northern prison camp, had made her his little comrade when she was a child and she was an excellent rifle shot and a bareback rider who was called the Rives little wildcat by outsiders. Her father allowed her to spend so much time outdoors because her mother had been an invalid in the years before she died.

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