Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition
Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition

Author: Harriet Fish Backus

Publisher: Graphic Arts Books

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1513262076

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A Colorado favorite, Tomboy Bride presents the first-hand account of a young pioneer woman and her life in a rough and tumble mining town of the Old West. In 1906 at the age of twenty, Harriet Fish hopped on a train from Oakland, California, to the San Juan Mountains of Colorado in search of a new life as the bride of assayer George Backus. Together, the couple ventured forth to discover mining town life at the turn of the twentieth century, adjusting to dizzying elevation heights of 11,500 feet and all the hardships that come with it: limited water, rationed food supplies, lack of medical care, difficulty in travel, avalanches, and many more. As she and George move from Telluride’s Tomboy Mine to the rugged coast of British Columbia, to the town of Elk City, Idaho, and then back to Colorado’s Leadville, Harriet paints a poignant picture of a world centered around mining, sharing amusing and often challenging experiences as a woman of the era. With a new foreword by award-winning author Pam Houston, this 50th anniversary edition also includes previously unpublished black and white photographs documenting Harriet's journey. Tomboy Bride endures as a classic of the region to this day as it captures in heart-felt emotion and vivid detail the personal account of Harriet Backus, a true pioneer of the West.

Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition
Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition

Author: Harriet Fish Backus

Publisher: West Winds Press

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781513262055

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A Colorado favorite, Tomboy Bride presents the first-hand account of a young pioneer woman and her life in a rough and tumble mining town of the Old West. In 1906 at the age of twenty, Harriet Fish hopped on a train from Oakland, California, to the San Juan Mountains of Colorado in search of a new life as the bride of assayer George Backus. Together, the couple ventured forth to discover mining town life at the turn of the twentieth century, adjusting to dizzying elevation heights of 11,500 feet and all the hardships that come with it: limited water, rationed food supplies, lack of medical care, difficulty in travel, avalanches, and many more. As she and George move from Telluride's Tomboy Mine to the rugged coast of British Columbia, to the town of Elk City, Idaho, and then back to Colorado's Leadville, Harriet paints a poignant picture of a world centered around mining, sharing amusing and often challenging experiences as a woman of the era. With a new foreword by award-winning author Pam Houston, this 50th anniversary edition also includes previously unpublished black and white photographs documenting Harriet's journey. Tomboy Bride endures as a classic of the region to this day as it captures in heart-felt emotion and vivid detail the personal account of Harriet Backus, a true pioneer of the West.

Tomboy Bride
Tomboy Bride

Author: Harriet Fish Backus

Publisher: Graphic Arts Books

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0871089750

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A true pioneer of the West, Harriet Backus writes about her amusing and often challenging experiences with heart felt emotion and vivid detail. New foreword by Pam Houston and afterword by author's grandson Rob Walton are featured.

One Man's West
One Man's West

Author: David Sievert Lavender

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1977-01-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780803258556

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"The country in which I grew up-the rugged areas of southwestern Colorado-was changing rapidly in the 1930s. I sensed that something unique in the nation's experience was ending, and I tried to capture a segment of the passing on paper-the breakup of the great cattle ranches and mines and the last efforts of the old-timers to hang on in the face of declining profits and increasing mechanization they themselves could not afford."-David Lavender

Doc Susie
Doc Susie

Author: Virginia Cornell

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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The bestselling true story of a woman doctor at the turn of the century and her triumph over prejudice, poverty, and even her own illness. When she arrived in Colorado in 1907, Dr. Susan Anderson had a broken heart and a bad case of tuberculosis. But she stayed to heal the sick, tend to the dying, fight the exploitative railway management, and live a colorful, rewarding life.

Carrying All Before Her
Carrying All Before Her

Author: Chelsea Phillips

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2022-01-14

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1644532484

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Carrying All Before Her recovers the stories of six eighteenth-century celebrity actresses who performed during pregnancy, melding public and private, persona and person, domestic and professional labor and helping to shape wider social, medical, and political conversations about gender, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood. Their stories deepen our understanding of celebrity, repertory, and theatre's connection to a wider social world, and challenge notions of women's agency and power in and beyond the professional theatre.

Telluride
Telluride

Author: Elizabeth Barbour

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738548500

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Looks at the history of the southwestern Colorado town located in the San Juan Mountains.

The Anglican Story in Ghana
The Anglican Story in Ghana

Author: John S. Pobee

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9988037805

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The Anglican Church, by virtue of being the Christian communion most closely tied to the colonial history of the West Africa sub continent, could be said to be the oldest historic mission ecclesial body within the region. Emeritus Professor Canon John Samuel Pobee's work The Anglican Story in Ghana is the only published full length monograph of Ghanaian Anglicanism since Church of England missionaries first set foot on the soils of the then Gold Coast in the middle of the 18th century. It is a historical account that features insights into the work and activities of the various dioceses of the Anglican Church including their contributions to education, social evangelism and education in particular. Each chapter is illustrated with pictures of key personnel dating back to the colonial era.

Single and Whole
Single and Whole

Author: Temitayo Olaleye

Publisher: Word2print

Published: 2018-07

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781908588340

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Life is in stages. The more you can get out of one stage, the better you will be in the next. Everyone is going to pass through a stage of singleness; some will get married but some won't. The more you can get out of your years as a single person, the better you will be when you join yourself to another person, if you choose to get married. This book will help you understand and embrace wholeness while you are still single. Not only will you be a whole person, but you will also be able to identify a 'whole partner' to marry. It is two whole individuals that can make a relationship and ultimately, marriage, work. In this book, you will find tools for maximising and enjoying fulfilment in your single years, and the ingredients for wholeness in your spirit, soul, and body - all from the perspective of a single person. You will also find answers to some of the questions single people ask.

Indian Life at the Old Missions
Indian Life at the Old Missions

Author: Edith Buckland Webb

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781932846041

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Originally published in 1952 and then reprinted in 1982, "Indian Life at the Old Missions" is filled with detailed photographs and fine line-drawings of the Native Americans who founded California, yet were destined to be forgotten, as settlers took over their land.