The first we can remember : Colorado pioneer women tell their stories /
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."...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2011.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780803237742 080323774X 9786613592965 661359296X |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xliii, 363 pages) : map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) and index. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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