Mollie Dorsey Sanford
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University of Nebraska Press
Language
English
Description
Mollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. More particularly, it is the story of Mollie herselfjust turned eighteen when the Dorseys left Indianapolis for Nebraska Territoryof her reaction to the transplantation and to her new life which included rattlesnakes, blizzards, Indians, and the hardships of pioneer life. Mollie describes her nearly three-year engagement...