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Loading... Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919 (American Land & Life)by Philip L. Gerber, Elizabeth Corey
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)978.3History and Geography North America Western U.S. South DakotaLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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