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A delightful and fascinating account of a woman's experiences with homesteading in early 20th-century Wyoming, told through a series of letters to a friend and former employer in Denver.
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A fascinating and emotional diary from a young Louisiana girl whose family was divided by the Civil War, and who lived through the hardships of war and occupation.
(This early version, published in the author's lifetime and now in the public domain, is apparently not her full diaries, which have since been published in their entirety.)
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In the early 1900s, Edith Ammons and her sister Ida Mary set out by themselves for South Dakota to file homestead claims. Edith's memoir of their experiences, including blizzards, droughts, encounters with claim-jumpers and Indians, witnessing a land rush and running a rural post-office and newspaper, is one of the most fascinating memoirs of the American frontier you'll find.
