The colonel's lady on the western frontier : the correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson /
The modern woman who tries to juggle private and public roles with equilibrium will discover a spiritual ancestor in Alice Kirk Grierson. The colonel's lady spent most of her life at army outposts on the nineteenth-century western frontier, where she faced the problems of raising a large family...
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©1989.
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| Series: | Women in the West.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The modern woman who tries to juggle private and public roles with equilibrium will discover a spiritual ancestor in Alice Kirk Grierson. The colonel's lady spent most of her life at army outposts on the nineteenth-century western frontier, where she faced the problems of raising a large family while fulfilling the duties of a commanding officer's wife. Fortunately for history, she left a large and extraordinarily candid correspondence, which has now been edited by the author. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585346631 9780585346632 0803228864 9780803228863 |