Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919 - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0877453039 ISBN 13 : 9780877453031

Editeur : University of Iowa Press, 1990

Synopsis

In July 1909 twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Corey left her Iowa farm to stake her claim to a South Dakota homestead. Over the next ten years, as she continued her schoolteaching career and carved out a home for herself in this inhospitable territory, she sent a steady stream of letters to her family back in Iowa. From the edge of modern America, Bess wrote long, gossipy accounts--"our own continuing adventure story," according to her brother Paul--of frontier life on the high plains west of the Missouri River. Irrepressible, independent-minded, and evidently fearless, the self-styled Bachelor Bess gives us a firsthand, almost daily account of her homesteading adventures. We can all stake a claim in her energetic letters.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Iowa Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0877453039
• ISBN 13: 9780877453031
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 540
• Éditeur: Gerber Philip L.
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