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
Otros Autores: Foster, Emily, 1945- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bentley, Anna Briggs, > 1796-1890.
Bentley, Anna Briggs, > 1796-1890 > Correspondence.
Vrouwen.
Women pioneers.
Pioneers.
Manners and customs.
Frontier and pioneer life.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Pionniers > Ohio, Vallee de l' > Correspondance.
Pionnieres > Ohio, Vallee de l' > Correspondance.
Pioneers > Ohio River Valley > Correspondence.
Women pioneers > Ohio River Valley > Correspondence.
Frontier and pioneer life > Ohio River Valley.
Ohio River Valley.
Ohio, Vallee de l' > Moeurs et coutumes > 19e siecle.
Ohio River Valley > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Personal correspondence.
Electronic books.
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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