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Title The first we can remember : Colorado pioneer women tell their stories / edited and with an introduction by Lee Schweninger
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xliii, 363 pages) : map
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on the Texts; Chapter 1 The Northwest Plateau: Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties; Mrs. Dan'els; Mrs. Henry Harris; Emma Daum Amick; Madeline Adams and Jennie Reische; Chapter 2 The Mountains and Foothills: Gunnison, Rio Grande, Chaffee, Delta, Arapahoe, and Alamosa Counties; Mary Nichols Williams; Hattie Buck Williams; Anna Lee Fulcher Clarkson; Elizabeth Rule Harrington; Mary R. Goff; Mrs. Dock Wade; Ada B. Sittser, ; Julia E. Cozens; Mrs. William Stewart; Mary Jane Cole
Summary Looking over the great prairie in the early 1880s, Nellie Buchanan said, "I knew I would never be contented until I had a home of our own in the wonderful West." Some were not so sanguine. Mary Cox described the prairie as "the most barren, forsaken country that we had ever seen." Like the others whose stories appear in this book, these women were describing their own thoughts and experiences traveling to and settling in what became Colorado. Sixty-seven of their original, first-person narratives, recounted to Civil Works Administration workers in 1933 and 1934, are gathered for the first time
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) and index
Notes English
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Subject Women pioneers -- Colorado -- Interviews
Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado
Interviews -- Colorado
Oral history -- Colorado
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Frontier and pioneer life
Interviews
Manners and customs
Oral history
Women pioneers
SUBJECT Colorado -- Biography
Colorado -- History -- 1876-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028673
Colorado -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sj96006129
Subject Colorado
Genre/Form History
Biographies
Interviews
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Schweninger, Lee
ISBN 9780803237742
080323774X
9786613592965
661359296X