{"product_id":"bachelor-bess-philip-l-gerber-9780877453031","title":"Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn July 1909 twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Corey left her Iowa farm to stake her claim to a South Dakota homestead. Over the next ten years, as she continued her schoolteaching career and carved out a home for herself in this inhospitable territory, she sent a steady stream of letters to her family back in Iowa. From the edge of modern America, Bess wrote long, gossipy accounts--\"our own continuing adventure story,\" according to her brother Paul--of frontier life on the high plains west of the Missouri River. Irrepressible, independent-minded, and evidently fearless, the self-styled Bachelor Bess gives us a firsthand, almost daily account of her homesteading adventures. We can all stake a claim in her energetic letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip L. Gerber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0877453039\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780877453031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.08w x 1.54d","brand":"Philip L. Gerber","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48136186134783,"sku":"9780877453031","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f3677f4c-6e31-4655-9518-c80cac3831a5.jpg?v=1770161087","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bachelor-bess-philip-l-gerber-9780877453031","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}