Women of the West, Volume 12, Issues 1-1945A myth-shattering look at the women who helped to settle the West, told through their own words and illustrated with 150 period photographs. Through these photos, plus diaries, memoirs, letters, and journals, Women of the West introduces 11 real frontier women whose words combine to re-create a place and time when resourcefulness and courage were demanded of everyone. This is American history, not as it was romanticized, but as it was lived. 150 period photographs. |
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... miles without alighting . Had a long bawl . Husband spoke so cross I could scarcely bare it , but he seemed to pity me a little when he found how bad I felt . To - day has been very kind . Thursday , April 26 , 1838. Baked some biscuits ...
... miles without alighting . Had a long bawl . Husband spoke so cross I could scarcely bare it , but he seemed to pity me a little when he found how bad I felt . To - day has been very kind . Thursday , April 26 , 1838. Baked some biscuits ...
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... miles to my father so we thot we were in luck . We got to Mr. Jones at noon , so we stoped and fed the team and got a good warm dinner , then had about 4 miles to go yet . so the horses we hitched up again and about four oclock we drove ...
... miles to my father so we thot we were in luck . We got to Mr. Jones at noon , so we stoped and fed the team and got a good warm dinner , then had about 4 miles to go yet . so the horses we hitched up again and about four oclock we drove ...
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... miles from Tenby to Pembroke , where we got our license and were married , and walked back to Tenby . We were married on the third of April , 1856. On our return from Pembroke we found a few of our friends awaiting us with supper ready ...
... miles from Tenby to Pembroke , where we got our license and were married , and walked back to Tenby . We were married on the third of April , 1856. On our return from Pembroke we found a few of our friends awaiting us with supper ready ...
Contents
Preface | 14 |
Notes on the Photographs | 16 |
Notes on the Editing | 18 |
Copyright | |
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