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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Print version record |
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Women pioneers -- Colorado -- Interviews
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado
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Interviews -- Colorado
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Oral history -- Colorado
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Interviews
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Manners and customs
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Oral history
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Women pioneers
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SUBJECT |
Colorado -- Biography
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Colorado -- History -- 1876-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028673
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Colorado -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sj96006129
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Subject |
Colorado
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Genre/Form |
History
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Biographies
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Interviews
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Schweninger, Lee
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ISBN |
9780803237742 |
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080323774X |
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9786613592965 |
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661359296X |
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