Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1991
Abstract
The destruction in the South caused by the Civil War prompted many Southerners to move to Texas to reconstruct their lives. Ella Elgar Bird Dumont chronicles not only such a move from Mississippi to Texas in 1866 but also the details of her life as a plainswoman in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Comments
Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 11:4 (Fall 1991). Copyright © 1991 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.