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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
1990.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | American land and life series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (lxxvi, 462 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-449) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1587290790 9781587290794 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. |