The first we can remember Colorado pioneer women tell their stories

Summary: Looking over the great prairie in the early 1880s, 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 time

Record details

ISBN: 9780803237742 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 080323774X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780803235151
ISBN: 0803235151
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xliii, 363 p.) : map.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatBulkString:jan.03.13 CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-352) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.