| Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-273) and index. |
| Contents |
Beginnings. -- Overland journey -- The girls from Auburn -- "A funny, scraggly place" -- "Refined, intelligent gentlewomen" -- Old World and New. -- Unfenced -- The grand tour -- Ferry's scheme -- Departure -- Hell Hill -- Working Girls. -- Turnips and tears -- The mad ladies of Strawberry Park -- Debut -- Reckonings. -- The cream of Routt County -- "Unarmed and defenseless" -- "The dark days are very few" -- Three-wire winter -- Commencement. |
| Summary |
Derived from a widely read and much beloved New Yorker piece about Wickenden's grandmother and her grandmother's best friend who left their affluent East Coast lives to "rough it" as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916. |
| Subject |
Woodruff, Dorothy.
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Underwood, Rosamond.
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Teachers -- Colorado -- Biography.
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Education -- Colorado -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
9781439176580 hardback $26.00 |
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1439176582 hardback |
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