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In July 1909 twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Corey left her Iowa farm to stake her claim to a South Dakota homestead. Over the next ten years, as she continued her schoolteaching career and carved out a home for herself in this inhospitable territory, she sent a steady stream of letters to her family back in Iowa. From the edge of modern America, Bess wrote long, gossipy accountsour own continuing adventure story, according to her brother Paulof frontier life on the high plains west of the Missouri River. Irrepressible, independent-minded, and evidently fearless, the self-styled Bachelor Bess gives us a firsthand, almost daily account of her homesteading adventures. We can all stake a claim in her energetic letters.
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Bachelor Bess : The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919 American Land and Life Series
author
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Corey, Elizabeth.; Gerber, Philip L.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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0877453039
print isbn13
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9780877453031
ebook isbn13
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9781587290794
language
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English
subject
Corey, Elizabeth--Correspondence, Pioneers--South Dakota--Correspondence, Women pioneers--South Dakota--Correspondence, Farm life--South Dakota--History--20th century, South Dakota--Social life and customs, Frontier and pioneer life--South Dakota.
publication date
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1990
lcc
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F656.C67 1990eb
ddc
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978.3/031/092
subject
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Corey, Elizabeth--Correspondence, Pioneers--South Dakota--Correspondence, Women pioneers--South Dakota--Correspondence, Farm life--South Dakota--History--20th century, South Dakota--Social life and customs, Frontier and pioneer life--South Dakota.
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Bachelor Bess
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THE AMERICAN LAND AND LIFE SERIES
Edited by Wayne Franklin
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Bachelor Bess
The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919
Edited by Philip L. Gerber
Foreword by Paul Corey Afterword by Wayne Franklin
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1990 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Second paperback printing, 1991
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Corey, Elizabeth. Bachelor Bess: the homesteading letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909 1919/edited by Philip L. Gerber; foreword by Paul Corey; afterword by Wayne Franklin. 1st ed. p. cm. (The American land and life series) Includes index. ISBN 0-87745-302-0 (cloth), ISBN 0-87745-303-9 (paper) 1. Corey, Elizabeth Correspondence. 2. Pioneers South Dakota Correspondence. 3. Women pioneers South Dakota Correspondence. 4. Farm life South Dakota History 20th century. 5. South Dakota Social life and customs. 6. Frontier and pioneer life South Dakota. I. Gerber, Philip L. II. Title. III. Series. F656.c67 1990 90-36047 978.3'031'092 dc20 CIP [B]
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To Bess, who wrote these letters, To Paul, who saved them, and To Gene, who found them.
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At last [my brother Fuller] told someone that he thought it a wonder that I, a girl alone among strangers, had done so well better than most of the men had done. Elizabeth Corey, 1911
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Contents
Foreword by Paul Corey
xi
Acknowledgments
xxi
Introduction
xxvii
A Note on the Editing
lxix
Elizabeth Corey's Homesteading Letters
1
Epilogue: 1920-1954
365
Afterword by Wayne Franklin
393
Notes
397
Index
451
Page xi
Foreword
by Paul Corey
Seeing this collection of my sister Bess's letters after so many years, the first image that fills my mind is that of a discarded wagon wheel. I can see it clearly through the mists of eighty years. Its axle is buried in the ground, allowing the wheel to revolve on the horizontal plane. Boxes are attached at regular intervals, and our rural mail carrier has only to give the wheel a spin as he slips mail into separate boxes for the farms in the area.
On this mail-wheel Bess's many letters, each in its turn, rested in the box marked E.O. Corey while it waited to be picked up by a family member, usually myself.
This wheel stood at the northeast corner of an intersection of north-south and east-west roads near Marne, Iowa. Into the southwest corner of that intersection fitted the one-room school I attended. At the southeast corner, behind a windbreak of trees, were the farm buildings of our nearest neighbor. And at the northwest corner stood the buildings of our family farm.
How my family managed to squeeze into the four-room house my father had built on our Iowa farm has always baffled me. I never knew when that house was completed and moved into. Sometime in the 1890s I would guess.
A great day for my mother, apparently. The original house on the land had been infested with bedbugs, a condition common to frontier homes. Sometime later I learned about the extreme care taken that no bugs be carried into the new home.
When I was born in 1903, my father, Edwin O. Corey, was forty-seven. My mother, Margaret Morgan Brown Corey, was forty. My oldest brother, J. Olney, was seventeen; my oldest sister, Elizabeth F.
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