Life on Muskrat Creek (eBook)

A Homestead Family in Wyoming

Ethel Waxham Love, J. David Love (Autoren)

Frances Love Froidevaux, Barbara Love (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
246 Seiten
Lehigh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61146-265-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book Ethel Waxham Love and her son, geologist David Love, tell the fascinating story of their family's day-to-day life on an isolated ranch in early twentieth-century Wyoming. The interweaving of Ethel’s and David’s accounts of their experience on the Love ranch creates a unique memoir. Combining the perspectives of two genders and two generations, Life on Muskrat Creek provides a rich portrait of ranch life in the changing west.

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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.

Autor

Frances Love Froidevaux (1942–2011) taught French and ESL and founded the Bartlesville, OK, school system’s first foreign language program.Barbara Love has worked as an archaeologist, ESL and English professor, and freelance editor.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments Maps Preface Family Background Chapter 1: 1910: "Rome Was Not Built in a Day" Chapter 2: 1911: "The Customs of the Country" Chapter 3: 1912: "Roll, Jordan, Roll" Chapter 4:1912-13: "Love's Labor Lost and the 3 D's" Chapter 5: 1913-15: "Raw Material" Chapter 6: 1916-17: Growing Challenges Chapter 7: 1918: The Beginning of the Mirage Chapter 8: 1919: "The Equalizer" Chapter 9: 1920: "We Will Rebuild, Again" Chapter 10: 1921: "Never a Light But One's Own" Chapter 11: 1922: "Earned Not Given" Chapter 12: 1923: Daily Life on Muskrat Creek Chapter 13: 1924: "Problems of Education" Chapter 14: 1925: Changing Horizons Epilogue Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 35 Illustrations including: - 33 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 2 Maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: 20th Century American History • History • Memoir • women's studies
• ISBN-10: 1-61146-265-7 / 1611462657
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61146-265-4 / 9781611462654