| Description |
1 online resource (xliii, 363 pages) : map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women pioneers -- Colorado -- Interviews.
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Women pioneers. |
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Colorado. |
| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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Colorado -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Colorado -- History -- 1876-1950.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1876-1950 |
| Subject |
Colorado -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Interviews -- Colorado.
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Interviews. |
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Oral history -- Colorado.
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Oral history. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1950 |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Interviews.
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| Added Author |
Schweninger, Lee.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: First we can remember. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2011 9780803235151 (DLC) 2011019912 (OCoLC)712115635 |
| ISBN |
9780803237742 (electronic book) |
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080323774X (electronic book) |
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1280497734 |
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9781280497735 |
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9780803235151 |
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0803235151 |
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