Pioneer Diaries
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FROM: "Carol Kubala" <ckubala@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 1:39 PM
Annette Brochowski
Library Assistant - Popular Library Division
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Columbus, OH
Though all may not be Sanda Dallas read-alikes they are diaries.
Pioneer Diaries
"These is My
Words," by Nancy Turner
"Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish
Homesteader on the Northern Plains" by Rachel Calof.
The Journal of Callie Wade, by Dawn Miller.
"Doc Holliday's Woman" by Jane Candia
Coleman
Mormon Mother by Annie Clark Tanner
Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past by Peg
Meier
Pioneer women : voices from Kansas frontier. by Joanna Stratton
The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas, and Letters from
Yellowstone by Diane Smith.
"The Journals of Corrie
Belle Hollister" by Michael Phillips, beginning with MY FATHER'S
WORLD. Christian fiction series about a young girl who has to
take over the care of her younger brothers & sisters on the trail to
find their father in California. I believe the series is set in the 1
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier" by Joanna L. Stratton.
The mountains we have crossed: diaries and letters of the Oregon
Mission,
1838 edited by Sarah Gilbert White Smith
"Women's Diaries of the
Westward Journey" by
Lillian Schlissel - copyright 1982.
The sharp teeth of love : a novel / by Doris Betts.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
I Pearl Hart: A Woman's Story, by Jane Candia Coleman
Also, be sure to use These is My Words: the Diary of Sarah Agnes
Prine,by Nancy Turner (already mentioned elsewhere in the list-it's
excellent).
"The Checkered Years," by
Mary Dodge Woodward.
"One Thousand White Women," by Jim Fergus.
You might try to find Letters from Honey Hill , nonfiction from
turn-of-the-century Wyoming. Sorry, I can't remember the author &
library
here doesn't own it. I think it came out in late 70s or early 80s.
"Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier," ed. Joanna Stratton.
"Nothing to do but stay: my pioneer mother" By Carrie Young
about Norwegian settlers in North Dakota. It is non fiction, she also
wrote a collection of short stories called "The wedding dress". Both
are
very good.
Also "Heart of the West" by Penelope Williamson, or "True Women" by
Janice Woods Windle.
Mary
Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart" by Opal Whiteley. This
is a diary, believed to be written by a six-year-old girl in a
turn-of-the-century Oregon logging camp. This edition is actually a
poetic
adaptation (by Jane Boulton) of the original which was written in prose
form. The prose version (which I have not yet read) is entitled "The
Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Mystical Nature Diary of Opal
Whiteley." Edited by Benjamin Hoff, it includes biographical and other
information about Opal Whiteley and the controversy surrounding the
authenticity of her diary. I would love to see Opal's beautiful work
receive greater exposure, and I hope you can include one or both of
these
titles. Also - there is a beautiful children's picture book version
called
"Only Opal: the Diary of a Young Girl" by Jane Boulton and illustrated
by
Barbara Cooney.
This list by
Meg Sarff megsarff@libby.rbls.lib.il.us
Public Services Manager Davenport Public Library
Voice: 319.328.6848 321 Main Street
Fax: 319.326.7809 Davenport, Iowa 52801-1490
Visit the Library's website at www.rbls.lib.il.us/dpl/
THE ADVENTURES OF THE WOMAN HOMESTEADER: THE LIFE AND
LETTERS OF ELINORE PRUITT STEWART
by Susanne K. George (BIOG Ste)
BACHELOR BESS: THE HOMESTEADING LETTERS OF ELIZABETH
COREY, 1909-1919
by Elizabeth Corey (BIOG Cor)
CONVERTING THE WEST: BIOGRAPHY OF NARCISSA WHITMAN
by Julie Roy Jeffery (BIOG Whi)
FAR FROM HOME: FAMILIES OF THE WESTWARD JOURNEY
by Lillian Schlissel (978 Sch)
FRONTIERSWOMEN, THE IOWA EXPERIENCE
by Glenda Riley (305.42 Ril)
HO FOR CALIFORNIA: WOMEN'S OVERLAND DIARIES
(917.8 Ho)
THE LAND BEFORE HER: FANTASY AND EXPERIENCE OF THE
AMERICAN FRONTIERS, 1630-1919
by Annette Kolodny (973 Kol)
LIFE IN ALASKA: THE REMINSCENCES OF A KANSAS WOMAN,
1916-1919
by May Wynne Lamb (979.84 Lam)
NOTHING TO DO BUT STAY: MY PIONEER MOTHER
by Carrie Young (BIOG Gaf)
OH, HOW CAN I KEEP SINGING: VOICES OF PIONEER WOMEN
by Jana Harris (811.54 Har)
ONE WOMAN'S WEST: RECOLLECTIONS OF THE OREGON TRAIL AND
SETTLING OF THE NORTHWEST COUNTRY
by Martha Gay Masterson (979.503 Mas)
OUT HERE ON SOAP CREEK: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by Inez McAlister Faber (BIOG Fab)
PIONEER WOMEN: VOICES FROM THE KANSAS FRONTIER
by Joanna L. Straton (305.43 Str)
PIONEERING ON THE YUKON, 1892-1917
by Anna DeGraf (BIOG Deg)
PLAINS WOMAN: THE DIARY OF MARTHA FARNSWORTH
by Martha Farnsworth (978.1 Far)
PRAIRIE POPULIST: MEMOIRS OF LUNA KELLIE
by Luna Kellie (BIOG Kel)
A SECRET TO BE BURRIED: THE DIARY AND LIFE OF EMILY
HAWLEY
GILLESPIE, 1858-1888
by Emily Hawley Gillespie (BIOG Gil)
A STRANGER IN HER NATIVE LAND: ALICE FLETCHER AND THE
AMERICAN INDIANS
by Joan T. Mark (973.0497 Mar)
TRIALS OF THE EARTH: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARY HAMILTON
by Mary Hamilton (BIOG Ham)
WOMEN'S DIARIES OF THE WESTWOARD JOURNEY
(978.02 Wom)
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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey - collected by Lillian Schlissel
The Living - by Annie Dillard
The Diary of Mattie Spencer - by Sandra Dallas
One Thousand White Women: The Journal of May Dodd - by Jim Fergus
These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 - by Nancy
E. Turner
The Earth Abideth - by George Dell
The Pilgrimage - by Ann B. Ross
An Ordinary Woman: A dramatized biography of Nancy Kelsey - by Cecelia
Holland
Against All Odds: The Lucy Scott Mitchum Story - by Barbara Riefe
The Chisholms - by Evan Hunter
Desperate Crossing: the Jenny Sanders Pryor story - by Barbara Riefe
Westward Hearts: the Amelia Dale Archer story - by Barbara Riefe
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Carol Kubala
Adult Services Librarian
Columbia/Saxton B. Little Free
Voice 860-228-0350 Fax 860-228-1569
FROM: Maria Velazquez <mdvelazquez@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/11/02, 6:52 AM
I found the author of Letters from Honey Hill if
anyone would like to adjust their list.
Hendricks, Cecilia Hennel, LETTERS FROM HONEY HILL: A
WOMAN'S VIEW OF HOMESTEADING 1914-1922
Maria Velazquez
mdvelazquez@yahoo.com
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