The first we can remember: Colorado pioneer women tell their stories
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press ©2011
Schriftenreihe:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) and index
Looking over the great prairie in the early 1880s, Nellie Buchanan said, "I knew I would never be contented until I had a home of our own in the wonderful West." Some were not so sanguine. Mary Cox described the prairie as "the most barren, forsaken country that we had ever seen." Like the others whose stories appear in this book, these women were describing their own thoughts and experiences traveling to and settling in what became Colorado. Sixty-seven of their original, first-person narratives, recounted to Civil Works Administration workers in 1933 and 1934, are gathered for the first time
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on the Texts; Chapter 1 The Northwest Plateau: Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties; Mrs. Dan'els; Mrs. Henry Harris; Emma Daum Amick; Madeline Adams and Jennie Reische; Chapter 2 The Mountains and Foothills: Gunnison, Rio Grande, Chaffee, Delta, Arapahoe, and Alamosa Counties; Mary Nichols Williams; Hattie Buck Williams; Anna Lee Fulcher Clarkson; Elizabeth Rule Harrington; Mary R. Goff; Mrs. Dock Wade; Ada B. Sittser, ; Julia E. Cozens; Mrs. William Stewart; Mary Jane Cole
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xliii, 363 pages)
ISBN:0803235151
080323774X
9780803235151
9780803237742

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