
Nothing Daunted
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In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on horseback, often in blinding blizzards. Their students walked or skied, in tattered clothes and shoes tied together with string. The young cattle rancher who had lured them west, Ferry Carpenter, had promised them the adventure of a lifetime. He hadn't let on that they would be considered dazzling prospective brides for the locals.
Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers' buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable people the women got to know. In reconstructing their journey, Wickenden has created an exhilarating saga about two intrepid women and the ?settling up? of the West.
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- Intro
- Dedication
- Prologue
- Part One: Beginnings
- Chapter 1: Overland Journey
- Chapter 2: The Girls From Auburn
- Chapter 3: "A Funny, Scraggly Place"
- Chapter 4: "Refined, Intelligent Gentlewomen"
- Part Two: Old World and New
- Chapter 5: Unfenced
- Chapter 6: The Grand Tour
- Chapter 7: Ferry's Scheme
- Chapter 8: Departure
- Chapter 9: Hell Hill
- Part Three: Working Girls
- Chapter 10: Turnips and Tears
- Chapter 11: The Mad Ladies of Strawberry Park
- Chapter 12: Debut
- Part Four: Reckonings
- Chapter 13: The Cream of Routt County
- Chapter 14: "Unarmed and Defenseless"
- Chapter 15: "The Dark Days Are Very Few"
- Chapter 16: Three-Wire Winter
- Chapter 17: Commencement
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- More Photos From Dorothy Woodruff's Albums
- Reading Group Guide
- A Conversation with Dorothy Wickenden
- 'The Agitators' Teaser
- About the Author
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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