Bachelor Bess :: the homesteading letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919 /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Corey, Elizabeth
Weitere Verfasser: Gerber, Philip L.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1990.
Ausgabe:1st ed.
Schriftenreihe:American land and life series.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (lxxvi, 462 pages) : illustrations
Format: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.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-449) and index.
ISBN:1587290790
9781587290794
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