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

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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...

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Main Author: Corey, Elizabeth
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Other Authors: Gerber, Philip L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1990.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:American land and life series.
Subjects:
Corey, Elizabeth > Correspondence.
Corey, Elizabeth
Pioneers > South Dakota > Correspondence.
Women pioneers > South Dakota > Correspondence.
Farm life > South Dakota > History > 20th century.
South Dakota > Social life and customs.
Frontier and pioneer life > South Dakota.
Vie à la ferme > Dakota du Sud > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Pionniers > Dakota du Sud > Correspondance.
Pionnières > Dakota du Sud > Correspondance.
Dakota du Sud > Mœurs et coutumes.
HISTORY > State & Local.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Farm life
Frontier and pioneer life
Manners and customs
Pioneers
Women pioneers
South Dakota
1900-1999
Electronic books.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
History
Personal correspondence
Autobiographies.
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Call Number: F656 .C67 1990eb
 
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