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"Three score years and ten" : life-long memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and other parts of the West / by Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve.
Women’s Studies Archive: Rare Titles from the American Antiquarian Society, 1820-1922 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Cleve, Charlotte Ouisconsin, 1819-1907, author.
- Series:
- Women's Studies Archive: Rare Titles from the American Antiquarian Society, 1820-1922.
- Women's Studies Archive: Rare Titles from the American Antiquarian Society, 1820-1922
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Van Cleve, Charlotte Ouisconsin, 1819-1907.
- Van Cleve, Charlotte Ouisconsin.
- Army spouses--Biography.
- Army spouses.
- Children of military personnel--Biography.
- Children of military personnel.
- Fort Snelling (Minn.).
- Frontier and pioneer life--Minnesota.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Minnesota.
- Van Cleve, Horatio Phillips, 1809-1891.
- Van Cleve, Horatio Phillips.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 pages) : illustration.
- Manufacture:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : Printing House, Harrison and Smith, [date of manufacture not identified]
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1888]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve (1819-1907) was the daughter of a U.S. Army officer, one of the first group of soldiers assigned to establish a fort in what was then known to whites as the Northwest. This was Fort Snelling, situated at the mouth of the St. Peter's [Minnesota] river in territory which eventually became the state of Minnesota. Van Cleve's book is a memoir of life spent with the military first as the daughter of a military officer, Major Nathan Clark, and later as the wife of another officer, Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, who served in the Union Army with the Second Minnesota Infantry and rose to the rank of General. Van Cleve's book emphasizes the early years of Fort Snelling. She recalls her childhood memories of life at the fort: the rudimentary schooling she received there, her encounters with Indians, the excitement of communications with the East, and all the rigors associated with frontier life. Van Cleve met her husband at Fort Winnebago, where he and her father were both stationed. Their assignments provided many opportunities to travel, and she visited St. Louis, Cincinnati, Kentucky, and Nashville.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the original from American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1289511851
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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