Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead Family in Wyoming

di Ethel Waxham Love (Autore)

J. David Love (Autore)

Frances Love Froidevaux (Curatore)

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Lehigh University Press, 2020

Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a family's day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early twentieth-century Wyoming. Readers will be held in suspense as they learn about the family's battle with a variety of challenges, including a near-fatal bout with Spanish influenza, life-threatening encounters with livestock and wildlife, and disastrous episodes of fires, flooding, blizzards, and drought. The book's depiction of more ordinary events is equally engaging; Ethel describes becoming a wife and raising children without the support of neighbors, women friends, or a wider family network, and David recounts growing up in a wild and remote place where there was no local school to attend. Readers from all walks of life will find Life on Muskrat Creek to be a lively and provocative book.

• Autore: Ethel Waxham Love, J. David Love
• Curatore: Frances Love Froidevaux, Barbara Love
• Editore: Lehigh University Press
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 288 p.
• Dimensioni: 231 x 155 mm
• Peso: 467 gr.
• EAN: 9781611462661

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