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The colonel's lady on the western frontier : the correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson / edited by Shirley A. Leckie. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grierson, Alice Kirk, 1828-1888.
- Series:
- Women in the West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grierson, Alice Kirk, 1828-1888--Correspondence.
- Grierson, Alice Kirk.
- United States. Army--Military life--History--19th century.
- United States.
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- West (U.S.)--History--1848-1860.
- West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890.
- Officers' spouses--West (U.S.)--Correspondence.
- Officers' spouses.
- Genre:
- History.
- Records and correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 255 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1989.
- Summary:
- The modern woman who tries to juggle private and public roles with equilibrium will discover a spiritual ancestor in Alice Kirk Grierson. The colonel's lady spent most of her life at army outposts on the nineteenth-century western frontier, where she faced the problems of raising a large family while fulfilling the duties of a commanding officer's wife. Fortunately for history, she left a large and extraordinarily candid correspondence, which has now been edited by the author.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 239-247.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-34663-1
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