Bachelor Bess : the homesteading letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919 / edited by Philip L. Gerber ; foreword by Paul Corey ; afterword by Wayne Franklin.
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...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1990. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | American land and life series.
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