Mysteries of Love and Grief : Reflections on a Plainswoman's Life /

"Frieda Harms was born into a farming family in Indian Territory in 1906. Widowed at thirty and left with three children in the midst of the Great Depression, she worked as a farmer, a railroad cook, a mill worker, and a nurse in four states. She died in 1983. Sandra Scofield spent most of her...

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Main Author: Scofield, Sandra Jean, 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Scofield, Sandra Jean, > 1943-
Scofield, Sandra Jean, > 1943- > Family.
Scofield, Sandra Jean, > 1943- > Childhood and youth.
Hambleton, Frieda Katherine Harms, > 1906-1983.
Working mothers.
Women pioneers.
Widows.
Manners and customs.
Grandmothers.
Families.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Grands-meres > Hautes Plaines (États-Unis) > Biographies.
Veuves > Hautes Plaines (États-Unis) > Biographies.
Meres au travail > Hautes Plaines (États-Unis) > Biographies.
Pionnieres > Hautes Plaines (États-Unis) > Biographies.
Grandmothers > High Plains (U.S.) > Biography.
Widows > High Plains (U.S.) > Biography.
Working mothers > High Plains (U.S.) > Biography.
Women pioneers > High Plains (U.S.) > Biography.
United States > High Plains.
Texas > Wichita Falls.
Hautes Plaines (États-Unis) > Moeurs et coutumes > 20e siecle.
Wichita Falls (Tex.) > Biography.
Devol (Okla.) > Biography.
High Plains (U.S.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frieda and Ira
  • An Abbreviated Family Tree for Frieda
  • The Story Test
  • What Was Left Behind
  • Distribution
  • How She Was
  • What We Lost to Grief
  • The Last Farmer
  • Out of Rodewald
  • The Pillow in the Window
  • The End of the Story
  • Leave-taking
  • Biscuits and Gravy
  • Beloved
  • Suffering
  • Edith's Men
  • Babies
  • Mommy
  • Lucky Duck
  • Rifts
  • Pixie Dust
  • The Storage Shed
  • Good Times
  • Enigma
  • Husbands
  • Repairs
  • Under the Apricot Tree
  • Anger
  • Frieda's Bit of Mercy
  • Legacy
  • Frieda's Larder
  • Starry Night
  • The Skillet
  • The Girls
  • A Gift
  • Frieda's Last House : 1953-1983
  • Opal on Dry Ground
  • Admonitions
  • Ira Writes
  • Didn't He Dance? : 1931
  • Ira writes : Sweetheart.

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