Bachelor Bess The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919 |
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| Editor:
| Gerber, Philip L. |
| Foreword by:
| Corey, Paul |
| Afterword by:
| Franklin, Wayne |
| Series title: | American Land and Life Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87745-303-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1990 |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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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--"our own continuing adventure story," according to her brother Paul--of frontier life on the high...
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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--"our own continuing adventure story," according to her brother Paul--of frontier life on the high plains west of the Missouri River. Irrepressible, independent-minded, and evidently fearless, the self-styled Bachelor Bess gives us a firsthand, almost daily account of her homesteading adventures. We can all stake a claim in her energetic letters.