Bachelor Bess : the homesteading letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919 / edited by Philip L. Gerber ; foreword by Paul Corey ; afterword by Wayne Franklin
Foreword by Paul Corey; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on the Editing; Elizabeth Corey's Homesteading Letters; Epilogue: 1920-1954; Afterword by Wayne Franklin; Notes; Index
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-449) and index
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