Henry William Bigler: Soldier, Gold Miner, Missionary, Chronicler, 1815-1900Louisa Barnes Pratt narrates a remarkable frontier odyssey filled with adventure, trial, personal conflict, and forced independence. In her memoir, which she finished in the 1870s by revising her long-time journal and diary, she tells of childhood in Massachusetts and Canada during the War of 1812, an independent career as a teacher and seamstress in New England, her marriage to the Boston seaman Addison Pratt, and their home life in New York. |
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