| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 191 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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A bur oak book |
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Bur oak book.
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| Contents |
Editor's note / by Charlotte M. Wright -- Letters from Corey Farm, October 1904 -- Letters from Walnut, November 1904 to February 1905 -- Letters from Harlan, June 1905 to August 1905 -- Letters from Tennant, September 1905 to June 1906 -- Letters from Harlan, June 1906 to July 1906 -- Letters from Irwin, January 1908 to June 1908 -- Letters from Corey Farm and Harlan, July 1908 to August 1908 |
| Summary |
Readers everywhere fell for Elizabeth Corey, the irrepressible, independent, and fearless Bachelor Bess, whose letters home to Iowa gave us a firsthand account of her adventures on a South Dakota homestead from 1909 to 1919. Now, through the letters she wrote home between 1904 and 1908, readers can make the acquaintance of a younger Bess facing the realities of life in an Iowa country school system with energy, enthusiasm, and ambition.℗¡Sixteen-year-old Bess wrote her early letters when she was away from the family farm, trying to complete the ninth grade so she could become a teacher. That sc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Corey, Elizabeth -- Correspondence
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| SUBJECT |
Corey, Elizabeth fast |
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Teachers -- Iowa -- Correspondence
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Rural schools -- Iowa
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EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Rural schools
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Teachers
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Iowa
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Personal correspondence
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gerber, Philip L.
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Wright, Charlotte M.
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| ISBN |
9781587299612 |
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1587299615 |
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