Bachelor Bess : the homesteading letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919
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Bachelor Bess : the homesteading letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919
（The American land and life series）
University of Iowa Press, 1990
- : cloth
- : paper
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Description based on 2nd paperback printing, 1991
Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-449) and index
Portraits of Elizabeth Corey, Bachelor Bess
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In July 1909 twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Corey left her Iowa farm to stake her claim to a South Dakota homestead. Over the next ten years, as she continued her schoolteaching career and carved out a home for herself in this inhospitable territory, she sent a steady stream of letters to her family back in Iowa. From the edge of modern America, Bess wrote long, gossipy accounts - 'our own continuing adventure story,' according to her brother Paul - of frontier life on the high plains west of the Missouri River. Irrepressible, independent-minded, and evidently fearless, the self-styled Bachelor Bess gives us a firsthand, almost daily account of her homesteading adventures. We can all stake a claim in her energetic letters.
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