
Bachelor Bess
The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919
Philip L. Gerber(Editor)
University of Iowa Press
Published on 1. October 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
540 pages
978-0-87745-303-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
803 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87745-303-1 (9780877453031)
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