Title The life of Elaine Goodale Eastman / Theodore D. Sargent

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 173 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Series Women in the West Women in the West. Contents Sky Farm home -- Berkshire farewells -- Serving the Sioux -- Love and marriage -- Your world or mine? -- Back in New England -- The writing game -- Flower of the forest -- Stresses and separation -- Life goes on Summary "Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) followed her conscience and calling in 1885 when she traveled west and opened a school on the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Over the next six years she witnessed many of the monumental events that affected the Lakotas, including the inception of the Ghost Dance religion and the fallout from the Wounded Knee massacre in December 1890. She also fell in love with and married Charles Eastman, a Dakota doctor with whom she had six children, and went on to help edit his many popular books on Sioux life and culture." "This biography draws on a newly discovered cache of more than one hundred letters from Elaine that were collected by one of her sisters, Rose Goodale Dayton, as well as newly discovered family correspondence and photographs. Previous books about Elaine - including her own autobiography - emphasize her work on the Sioux reservation and association with her famous husband. Access to her personal papers, however, enabled Theodore D. Sargent to shed new light on the dynamics of her thirty-year marriage to Charles and its ultimate demise, the importance of her own literary contributions during this period, and the challenges and successes of her life following their separation. The result is a long over-due multidimensional portrait of the relationships and aspirations that impelled and troubled this fascinating woman and her extraordinary life."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-167) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Eastman, Elaine Goodale, 1863-1953. Eastman, Charles A., 1858-1939. SUBJECT Eastman, Charles Alexander, 1858-1939 Eastman, Elaine Goodale, 1863-1953 Eastman, Charles A., 1858-1939 fast Eastman, Elaine Goodale, 1863-1953 fast Subject Santee Indians -- Social life and customs Lakota Indians -- Social life and customs Teachers -- Great Plains -- Biography Indians of North America -- Education -- Great Plains -- History Frontier and pioneer life -- Great Plains HISTORY -- State & Local. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. Frontier and pioneer life Indians of North America -- Education Santee Indians -- Social life and customs Teachers Lakota Indians -- Social life and customs SUBJECT Great Sioux Reservation (N.D. and S.D.) -- History Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- History Subject Great Plains South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation United States -- Great Sioux Reservation Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 0803205244 9780803205246

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