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Date of this Version
1992
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The experiences of a single female homesteader on the Great Plains of South Dakota are revealed in Bachelor Bess. This collection of letters spanning 1909-19 was written by Elizabeth Corey to her family in Iowa. The letters focus primarily on the social activities of Corey, who worked as a schoolteacher while homesteading in the West River country of South Dakota.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 12:2 (Spring 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.