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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Corey, Elizabeth
Other Authors: Gerber, Philip L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1990.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:American land and life series.
Subjects:
Corey, Elizabeth > Correspondence.
Corey, Elizabeth.
1900-1999
Pioneers > South Dakota > Correspondence.
Women pioneers > South Dakota > Correspondence.
Farm life > South Dakota > History > 20th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > South Dakota.
Vie à la ferme > Dakota du Sud > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Pionniers > Dakota du Sud > Correspondance.
Pionnières > Dakota du Sud > Correspondance.
HISTORY > State & Local.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Farm life.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Manners and customs.
Pioneers.
Women pioneers.
South Dakota > Social life and customs.
Dakota du Sud > Mœurs et coutumes.
South Dakota.
Autobiographies.
History.
Personal correspondence.
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