Bachelor Bess: the homesteading letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919
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Main Author: Corey, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City University of Iowa Press 1990
Edition:1st ed
Series:American land and life series
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-449) and index
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 & mdash;"our own continuing adventure story," according to her brother Paul & mdash;of frontier life on the high plains west of the Missouri River. Irrepressible, independent-minded, and evidently fearless
Foreword by Paul Corey; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on the Editing; Elizabeth Corey's Homesteading Letters; Epilogue: 1920-1954; Afterword by Wayne Franklin; Notes; Index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (lxxvi, 462 pages)
ISBN:1587290790
9781587290794

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