Bachelor Bess : The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919, Paper...

by Philip L. Gerber

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Bachelor Bess : The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1, Paperback by Gerber, Philip L. (EDT), ISBN 0877453039, ISBN-13 9780877453031, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US 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.

• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Year: 1909
• ISBN: 9780877453031
• Condition: Good

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