Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas FrontierThese accounts of the daily lives of Kansas pioneer women are selected from 800 memoirs collected by the author's great-grandmother. |
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... stove in another . " Mr. Hill came back to camp and we loaded up and drove out to Mr. Elliott's and made camp . We left the boys in camp while we mounted the horses and went land hunting . We went out a while that evening and again the ...
... stove in another . " Mr. Hill came back to camp and we loaded up and drove out to Mr. Elliott's and made camp . We left the boys in camp while we mounted the horses and went land hunting . We went out a while that evening and again the ...
Page 48
... stove right down in the dry creek bed . I got a good supper , the best we had had for a long time . " In the morning it was snowing and blowing a gale . Mr. Elliott let us have some poles that he had gotten ready to roof a stable and we ...
... stove right down in the dry creek bed . I got a good supper , the best we had had for a long time . " In the morning it was snowing and blowing a gale . Mr. Elliott let us have some poles that he had gotten ready to roof a stable and we ...
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... stove , with a load of cow chips stacked beside it , might fill a corner of the room , and a small slate blackboard might adorn the front wall . " I was employed to teach a three months school on Oak Creek about four and one - half ...
... stove , with a load of cow chips stacked beside it , might fill a corner of the room , and a small slate blackboard might adorn the front wall . " I was employed to teach a three months school on Oak Creek about four and one - half ...
Contents
Introduction by Arthur M Schlesinger | 17 |
The Journey | 33 |
2 | 46 |
Copyright | |
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