Eaton divorced Bertrand Babcock, married businessman Frank Reeve, and, with her three children, moved west to the Canadian province of Alberta in 1917. At the Bow View Ranch in Morley, Alberta, Eaton experienced life on the wide open prairie, populated only by ranchers, indigenous people, cattle, and horses. This far-flung locale sparked a new phase in Eaton’s career. She wrote two realist novels set in the Canadian west and published a number of journalistic features about the people, places, and happenings of her new home. Several of these texts use racial slurs that, although problematic now, were commonly used in her day to describe Indigenous, Black, and Asian characters. Even so, that Eaton would resort to slurs even to describe Chinese is surprising. During this period, Eaton also began to experiment with a new form of publication, the “pulps”--cheaply produced magazines featuring genre fiction of various sorts, including romance, mystery, and adventure fiction--the more sensational, the better.