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title	:	Twenty Miles From a Match : Homesteading in Western Nevada A Bristlecone Paperback
author	:	Olds, Sarah E.
publisher	:	University of Nevada Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0874170524
print isbn13	:	9780874170528
ebook isbn13	:	9780874174618
language	:	English
subject	Olds, Sarah E.,--1875-1963, Washoe County (Nev.)--Biography, Pioneers--Nevada--Washoe Co.--Biography, Frontier and pioneer life--Nevada--Washoe Co.
publication date	:	1978
lcc	:	F847.W3O47 1978eb
ddc	:	979.3/55/030924
subject	:	Olds, Sarah E.,--1875-1963, Washoe County (Nev.)--Biography, Pioneers--Nevada--Washoe Co.--Biography, Frontier and pioneer life--Nevada--Washoe Co.

Page i Twenty Miles from a Match

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Page iii Twenty Miles from a Match Homesteading in Western Nevada Sarah E. Olds Foreword by Leslie Zurfluh

Page iv The descendants of Sarah Olds would like to thank Louis Beaupre, Don Prusso, John Raker, and Kenneth Carpenter for their help in bringing the present memoirs to the attention of the University of Nevada Press. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Olds, Sarah E., 1875-1963. Twenty miles from a match. (A Bristlecone paperback) 1. Olds, Sarah E., 1875-1963. 2. Washoe Co., Nev.Biography. 3. PioneersNevadaWashoe Co.Biography. 4. Frontier and pioneer life NevadaWashoe Co. I. Title. F847.W3047 979.3'55'030924 [B] 78-13766 ISBN 0-87417-052-4 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 University of Nevada Press 1978. All rights reserved Book design by Dave Comstock Printed in the United States of America 5 7 9 8 6 4

Page v Contents Foreword vii Chapter One 1 Chapter Two 13 Chapter Three 20 Chapter Four 30 Chapter Five 37 Chapter Six 47 Chapter Seven 54 Chapter Eight 62 Chapter Nine 77 Chapter Ten 85 Chapter Eleven 94 Chapter Twelve 102 Chapter Thirteen 111 Chapter Fourteen 124 Chapter Fifteen 131 Chapter Sixteen 137 Chapter Seventeen 146 Chapter Eighteen 152 Chapter Nineteen 162 Chapter Twenty 170 Chapter Twenty-One 178 Chapter Twenty-Two 181

Page vii Foreword The buildings are gone now, burned in the brush fires of the 1970s, and the pastures of the homestead have been absorbed by the neighboring ranch. The driving spirit of the place had moved on before that, so it was just another deserted place by then. Sarah E. Olds had gone on to other interests and finally at 88 to her well-earned rest, having attained her goals of educating her six children without help from outside, and incidentally enjoying life immensely in the process. Sarah Elizabeth Thompson was born in Iowa in 1875, the youngest daughter of a family of nine. Her father, Alexander Thompson, had migrated from Scotland to Canada, where he met and married Mary Anne Harper, a recent migrant from Ireland; they soon moved to Iowa, settling on a farm near Ottumwa. The Thompsons' large family was spread over many years, so by the time Sarah was a young lady her older brothers and sisters were out on their own. A brother, Dave, was attracted to the mining booms of the far west, and though he returned to Iowa, his stories of his adventures prodded several members of the family to move. An older sister, Nettie, committed the shameful act of divorcing her husband, and went west to avoid the criticism directed at herself and her family. Meanwhile, Sarah had

Page viii studied dressmakingthe only acceptable occupation for young ladies in the Bible Belt at the time.

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