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Oh how can I keep on singing? : voices of pioneer women / poems by Jana Harris.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5980
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Jana, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Poetry.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Women pioneers.
- Washington (State).
- Women pioneers--Poetry.
- Washington (State)--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 102 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Distribution:
- New York : Distributed by George Braziller, Inc., 60 Madison Ave.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Ontario Review Press, [1993]
- Summary:
- Collection of poems by the author about the history of Washington State and the lives of pioneer women.
- Contents:
- Cattle-Killing Winter
- Avalanche
- Check-a-ma-poo
- Dutch Jake's Hell-Time Calendar
- How Do You Know Your Sin and Misery?
- Traveling School Mistress
- Salmon City Flood
- This New Life
- Fever
- Mary Malott, Counting Her Blessings
- The Laundress by the Lake
- Snow Bites
- Remembering the Noise Fast Water Makes
- My Brothers Worked the Ranch, I Got the Mail Route
- Letter from the Mines
- The First Law of Heaven
- Haying on the Similkameen
- Lights in the Firmament
- Monday
- Tuesday
- The Needlecraft of Sarah "The Widow" Jones
- Leaving in the Morning
- Ethel & Mary Ellen Playing by the Log Jamb
- In Answer to the Question
- The Laying-Out
- Committing the Landscape to Memory
- Photograph of My Hat Shop and the Horse I Used to Ride
- Mourning Picture.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has folded paper sheet with typescript contents list tipped in.
- ISBN:
- 0865380791
- 9780865380790
- OCLC:
- 28064115
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