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Bachelor Bess: the homesteading letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919

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Author:
Corey, Elizabeth
Series:
American land and life
Publisher:
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date:
1990
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1st ed
Language:
English
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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 & mdash;"our own continuing adventure story," according to her brother Paul & mdash;of frontier life on the high plains west of the Missouri River. Irrepressible, independent-minded, and evidently fearless.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
Corey, Elizabeth
Corey, Elizabeth -- Correspondence
Corey, Elizabeth. -- Correspondence
Correspondence
Dakota du Sud -- Mœurs et coutumes
Electronic books
Farm life
Farm life -- South Dakota -- History -- 20th century
Frontier and pioneer life
Frontier and pioneer life -- South Dakota
General
Histoire
Historical
History
HISTORY -- State & Local
Manners and customs
Mœurs et coutumes
Personal correspondence
Pioneers
Pioneers -- South Dakota -- Correspondence
Pionniers
Pionniers -- Dakota du Sud -- Correspondance
Pionnières
Pionnières -- Dakota du Sud -- Correspondance
Social life and customs
South Dakota
South Dakota -- Social life and customs
State & Local
Vie à la ferme
Vie à la ferme -- Dakota du Sud -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
Women pioneers
Women pioneers -- South Dakota -- Correspondence
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Contributors:
Gerber, Philip L
ISBN:
9780877453031
9780877453024
9781587290794
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Autobiographies
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
Corey, Elizabeth
Corey, Elizabeth -- Correspondence
Corey, Elizabeth. -- Correspondence
Correspondence
Dakota du Sud -- Mœurs et coutumes
Electronic books
Farm life
Farm life -- South Dakota -- History -- 20th century
Frontier and pioneer life
Frontier and pioneer life -- South Dakota
HISTORY -- State & Local
History
Manners and customs
Personal correspondence
Pioneers
Pioneers -- South Dakota -- Correspondence
Pionniers -- Dakota du Sud -- Correspondance
Pionnières -- Dakota du Sud -- Correspondance
South Dakota
South Dakota -- Social life and customs
Vie à la ferme -- Dakota du Sud -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
Women pioneers
Women pioneers -- South Dakota -- Correspondence
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Frontier and pioneer life
General
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Historical
History
Manners and customs
Mœurs et coutumes
Pioneers
Pionniers
Pionnières
Social life and customs
State & Local
Vie à la ferme
Women pioneers

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