Mary Alsop Parrot

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Mary O'Hara Alsop was born July 10, 1885 in Cape May Point, New Jersey, the third child of Reverend Dr. Reese Fell Alsop and Mary Lee Spring. O'Hara, who was named after her maternal grandmother, Mary O'Hara Spring (née Denny), grew up in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Her siblings included an older sister, the writer Gulielma (Elma) Fell; an older brother, Reese; and a younger sister, Elizabeth (Bess). She was a descendant of William Penn.

She married her third cousin, Kent Kane Parrot, in 1905 against her father's wishes. They had a daughter, O'Hara Parrot, born in 1908, who died of skin cancer in her early teens, and a son, Kay (Ken) Parrot [Kent Kane Parrot, Jr.] (born in 1910).

Following the end of her marriage to Parrot, Mary O'Hara worked as a Hollywood screenwriter during the silent film era. Her screenwriting credits included the movies The Last Card (1921), The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), Braveheart (1925), and Framed (1927).

A rocky, pine-covered ridge runs through the center of the Remount Ranch in Southeastern Wyoming where Mary O'Hara lived for 11 years.[1] The ranch is located on the eastern slope of the Laramie Mountains at more than 7,500 in elevation. In 1922 she married Helge Sture-Vasa, a Swede who had experience working horses in the U.S. Army's remount service, and they moved to Wyoming.

In 1930 the couple bought a ranch which had been established in 1886 in Laramie County, between Laramie and Cheyenne. They renamed it Remount Ranch, and stocked the ranch with sheep, which were at that time a profitable endeavor. The Great Depression wrecked the sheep market and any hope for profits for O'Hara and her husband. To make ends meet, they eked out a living delivering milk in Cheyenne and breeding horses.[1] Subsequently, O'Hara ran a summer camp for boys on holiday from Eastern prep schools. Yet it was her typewriter, not livestock, that proved most profitable for O'Hara. With the rugged Remount as a backdrop, she began writing. Deutsch 550g. Bookseller Inventory # 47491

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