Oh how can I keep on singing? : voices of pioneer women / poems by Jana Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Jana, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Ontario Review Press, publisher.

George Braziller, Inc., distributor.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Poetry.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Women pioneers--Poetry.

Women pioneers.

Washington (State)--Poetry.

Washington (State).

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[10], 102 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Distribution:

New York, NY : Distributed by George Braziller, Inc., 171 Madison Ave.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Ontario Review Press, [1996]

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.

Notes:

"Second printing, 1996"--Verso of title leaf.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

OCLC:

1286079992