ISBN:
9781351678186
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (398 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Rural History v.7
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Rural History Ser v.7
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Fairbanks, Carol Writings of Farm Women, 1840-1940 : An Anthology
DDC:
973.6
Keywords:
Rural women--United States
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- "Planting a Garden" Buffalobird-woman -- Life on Long Prairie Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve -- "God Was Good to His Immigrants" Melissa Genett Moore -- "Well, We Stuck" Jennie Stoughton Osborn -- Her Father's Right-Hand Man Adele Orpen -- "I Want to Write About My Days of a Slower Progress" Alice Dahlin Lund -- Sentenced to the Prairie Mary Larrabee -- "A Farm Is Such a Hard Place for a Woman" Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Building Leslieville, Alberta Mary C. Bailey -- Farming in Iowa Ada Mae Brown Brinton -- "I Have Planted Flowers Everywhere" Elinore Pruitt Stewart -- Two Young Women Homesteaders Edith Eudora Kohl -- "Wild with Heat and Thirst" Anna Langhorne Waltz -- There Was Something Sweet and Clean about the Harvest Era Bell Thompson -- "I Intend to Stick" Hilda Rose -- "Growing Things from the Soil Is Bliss" Annie Pike Greenwood -- "Starved, Stalled, and Stranded" Meridel LeSeuer -- A "Textbook Farmer" Grace Fairchild -- Epilogue Farming in the 1980s Lynn Spielman Dummer -- Index.
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