Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860 - 9780803273405
Un libro in lingua di Hafen Mary Ann Smart Donna Toland (INT) edito da Bison Books, 2004
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Called to go with the Swiss company to settle the “Dixieland” region of southern Utah —a hot, dry, inhospitable land—Mary Ann’s family lived in thatch, dugout, and adobe houses they built themselves. While still hardly more than a child, Mary Ann cut wheat with a sickle, gleaned cotton fields, made braided straw hats for barter, and spun and dyed cloth for her dresses. Always sustained by her faith in the church, she took part in a millenarian scheme that failed—a communal order—and entered a polygamous marriage, raising almost single-handedly a large family.
Mary Ann Hafen has left an authentic, matter-of-fact record of poverty, incredibly hard work, and loss of loved ones, but also of pleasures great and small. It is a unique document of a little-known way of life.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860
- Sottotitolo: A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Hafen Mary Ann Smart Donna Toland (INT)
- Editore: Bison Books
- Collana: Bison Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Marzo '04
- Genere: HISTORY
- Argomenti : Mormon pioneers Utah Biography Mormon pioneers Nevada Biography Frontier and pioneer life Utah
- Pagine: 112
- Dimensioni mm: 196 x 133 x 6
- EAN-13: 9780803273405