A Homesteader's Portfolio (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Alice Day Pratt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332333516 ISBN 13 : 9781332333516

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Trade yourself into a frontier of resilience and self-reliance. This memoir follows a teacher’s bold quest to build a true homestead in Oregon, where daily work, weather, and wonder blend into a life shaped by the land.

Set in the early 20th century, A Homesteader's Portfolio chronicles one woman’s deliberate move from city life to farmstead living. It captures the challenges and rewards of converting public land into a home, from tent homes and long winters to tending poultry, harvesting crops, and finding a place where education and nature meet. The book blends personal reflection with practical details, revealing intimate moments of perseverance, humor, and growth amid the rhythms of pioneer life.

- Learn how a planned career becomes a hands-on life on the land, including setting up shelter, tending flocks, and managing crops.
- Experience the daily routines, weather hardships, and small milestones that mark a homesteader’s progression toward a finished claim.
- Discover the author’s humane, humorous voice as she balances loneliness, community, and moments of triumph.
- Read about the emotional milestones that shape a life dedicated to self-reliance and education for future generations.

Ideal for readers of memoirs and frontier life, this edition invites you into a vivid, no-nonsense portrait of a woman chasing a dream and planting roots in a then-wild land.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332333516
• ISBN 13: 9781332333516
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 207
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