| Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919 Contributor(s): Gerber, Philip L. (Editor), Corey, Paul (Foreword by), Franklin, Wayne (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0877453039 ISBN-13: 9780877453031 Publisher: University of Iowa Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Literary Collections | Letters - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 90-36047 |
| Series: American Land and Life |
| Physical Information: 1.54" H x 6.08" W x 9.06" (1.77 lbs) 540 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - South Dakota |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |