American grit : a woman's letters from the Ohio frontier /

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In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Foster, Emily, 1945- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Colección:Ohio River Valley series.
Temas:
Bentley, Anna Briggs, > 1796-1890 > Correspondence.
Bentley, Anna Briggs, > 1796-1890.
1800-1899
Frontier and pioneer life > Ohio River Valley.
Women pioneers > Ohio River Valley > Correspondence.
Pioneers > Ohio River Valley > Correspondence.
Pionnières > Ohio, Vallée de l' > Correspondance.
Pionniers > Ohio, Vallée de l' > Correspondance.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Manners and customs.
Pioneers.
Women pioneers.
Vrouwen.
Ohio River Valley > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Ohio, Vallée de l' > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
Ohio River Valley.
Personal correspondence.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: 1826-1827; Chapter Two: 1828-1830; Chapter Three: 1831-1835; Illustration; Chapter Four: 1836-1842; Chapter Five: 1843-1847; Chapter Six: 1850-1858; Chapter Seven: The Later Years; Epilogue; Appendix One: The Children of Roger Brooke IV and Mary Matthews Brooke; Appendix Two: The Children of Isaac Briggs and Hannah Brooke Briggs; Appendix Three: The Children of Joseph E. Bentley and Anna Briggs Bentley; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W.

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