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The first we can remember : Colorado pioneer women tell their stories / edited and with an introduction by Lee Schweninger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women pioneers--Colorado--Interviews.
- Women pioneers.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Colorado.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Interviews--Colorado.
- Interviews.
- Oral history--Colorado.
- Oral history.
- Colorado--Biography.
- Colorado.
- Colorado--History--1876-1950.
- Colorado--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (408 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Looking over the great prairie in the early 1880's, 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
- 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
- Chapter 3 The South: Pueblo, Otero, El Paso, and Las Animas Counties Mrs. R. D. Russell; Hattie L. Hedges Trout; Mrs. Will Mattingly; Nellie Pollock Snyder; Mary E. Hayden; Cynthia Fisher; Anna Dillon; Mary Cox; Chapter 4 The Northeast: Weld, Morgan, and Logan Counties; Ada Fleming Sanford; Grace Brush Mayne; Etta L. Matteson Kettley; Katherine S. McElroy; Mrs. Pitt Smith; Jennie Lucas; Sallie J. Cheairs; Lizzie Gordon Buchanan; Mrs. W. H. Clatworthy; Chapter 5 The Eastern Prairie: Kit Carson and Prowers Counties; Nellie Buchanan; Elizabeth Gutting Lengel; Cynthia E. Boyles
- Flora Linford Ferris Mary Belle Kiser Haynes; Angelina Fuller; Anna Quinn; Clementina E. Morrison-Guthrie; Elizabeth Richards; Martha Gilmore Lundy; Luella Bell McKenzie; Anna Homm; Sarah Blakeman; Jennie E. Davis; Zelma Ackelson Davis; Malinda Jones Brammeier; Louise A. Merrill; Chapter 6 The Southwest: La Plata and Montezuma Counties; Dora Provis Pedersen; Kate Smith Myers; Mella McCluer Bohlick; Sarah Ann Menefee; Eliza LaCount; Hubertine Pulvermiller; Clara Morris Ormiston; E. W. Camp; Mary D. Hansen; Carrie Smith Dunham; Eva Adams House; Mary Lee Lamb; Agnes Langkamp Lupke
- Alice Henderson Akin Joanna Spalding Todd; Sarah Elizabeth Walker Moore; Dora Provis Pedersen; Mary Alverda Estes Taylor; Lucy Catherine Brumley-McConnell; Mrs. Hattie Johnson Porter; Mrs. Matt Hammond; Appendix: The Correspondence of Anna Florence Robisonand LeRoy Hafen; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613592965
- 9781280497735
- 1280497734
- 9780803237742
- 080323774X
- OCLC:
- 792741487
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