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

 
9780877453031: Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919

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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.

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9780877453024: Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919

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ISBN 10 :  0877453020 ISBN 13 :  9780877453024
Editeur : Univ of Iowa Pr, 1990
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