LEADER 04737nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910790123203321 005 20230126205138.0 010 $a1-280-49773-4 010 $a9786613592965 010 $a0-8032-3774-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000176528 035 $a(EBL)915042 035 $a(OCoLC)792741487 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000608458 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11355884 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000608458 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10606349 035 $a(PQKB)11129381 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC915042 035 $a(OCoLC)821726205 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3741 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL915042 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10559295 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL359296 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000176528 100 $a20110526d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe first we can remember$b[electronic resource] $eColorado pioneer women tell their stories /$fedited and with an introduction by Lee Schweninger 210 $aLincoln $cUniversity of Nebraska Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (408 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8032-3515-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on the Texts; Chapter 1 The Northwest Plateau: Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties; Mrs. Dan'els; Mrs. Henry Harris; Emma Daum Amick; Madeline Adams and Jennie Reische; Chapter 2 The Mountains and Foothills: Gunnison, Rio Grande, Chaffee, Delta, Arapahoe, and Alamosa Counties; Mary Nichols Williams; Hattie Buck Williams; Anna Lee Fulcher Clarkson; Elizabeth Rule Harrington; Mary R. Goff; Mrs. Dock Wade; Ada B. Sittser,; Julia E. Cozens; Mrs. William Stewart; Mary Jane Cole 327 $aChapter 3 The South: Pueblo, Otero, El Paso, and Las Animas Counties Mrs. R. D. Russell; Hattie L. Hedges Trout; Mrs. Will Mattingly; Nellie Pollock Snyder; Mary E. Hayden; Cynthia Fisher; Anna Dillon; Mary Cox; Chapter 4 The Northeast: Weld, Morgan, and Logan Counties; Ada Fleming Sanford; Grace Brush Mayne; Etta L. Matteson Kettley; Katherine S. McElroy; Mrs. Pitt Smith; Jennie Lucas; Sallie J. Cheairs; Lizzie Gordon Buchanan; Mrs. W. H. Clatworthy; Chapter 5 The Eastern Prairie: Kit Carson and Prowers Counties; Nellie Buchanan; Elizabeth Gutting Lengel; Cynthia E. Boyles 327 $aFlora Linford Ferris Mary Belle Kiser Haynes; Angelina Fuller; Anna Quinn; Clementina E. Morrison-Guthrie; Elizabeth Richards; Martha Gilmore Lundy; Luella Bell McKenzie; Anna Homm; Sarah Blakeman; Jennie E. Davis; Zelma Ackelson Davis; Malinda Jones Brammeier; Louise A. Merrill; Chapter 6 The Southwest: La Plata and Montezuma Counties; Dora Provis Pedersen; Kate Smith Myers; Mella McCluer Bohlick; Sarah Ann Menefee; Eliza LaCount; Hubertine Pulvermiller; Clara Morris Ormiston; E. W. Camp; Mary D. Hansen; Carrie Smith Dunham; Eva Adams House; Mary Lee Lamb; Agnes Langkamp Lupke 327 $aAlice Henderson Akin Joanna Spalding Todd; Sarah Elizabeth Walker Moore; Dora Provis Pedersen; Mary Alverda Estes Taylor; Lucy Catherine Brumley-McConnell; Mrs. Hattie Johnson Porter; Mrs. Matt Hammond; Appendix: The Correspondence of Anna Florence Robisonand LeRoy Hafen; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aLooking over the great prairie in the early 1880's, Nellie Buchanan said, "I knew I would never be contented until I had a home of our own in the wonderful West." Some were not so sanguine. Mary Cox described the prairie as "the most barren, forsaken country that we had ever seen." Like the others whose stories appear in this book, these women were describing their own thoughts and experiences traveling to and settling in what became Colorado. Sixty-seven of their original, first-person narratives, recounted to Civil Works Administration workers in 1933 and 1934, are gathered for the first 606 $aWomen pioneers$zColorado$vInterviews 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zColorado 606 $aInterviews$zColorado 606 $aOral history$zColorado 607 $aColorado$vBiography 607 $aColorado$xHistory$y1876-1950 607 $aColorado$xSocial life and customs$y19th century 615 0$aWomen pioneers 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 615 0$aInterviews 615 0$aOral history 676 $a920.72 676 $aB 701 $aSchweninger$b Lee$01083839 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790123203321 996 $aThe first we can remember$93679922 997 $aUNINA