Review of Land of the Burnt Thigh

Authors

Sheryll Patterson-Black, Denver, Colorado

Date of this Version

1988

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly SPRING 1988. Copyright 1988 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

Land of the Burnt Thigh recounts the adventures of two sisters, Edith Eudora Ammons Kohl and Ida Mary Ammons Miller, homesteading in South Dakota in 1907. "Timid as mice" and "city girls" at that, these young women are initially shocked by the rough frontier conditions they encounter but quickly rally to become successful homesteaders; Edith, in addition, becomes a newspaperwoman.