The colonel's lady on the western frontier : the correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson / edited by Shirley A. Leckie
- Author
- Grierson, Alice Kirk, 1828-1888
- Published
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1989]
- Copyright Date
- ©1989
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Leckie, Shirley A., 1937-
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- Series
- Summary
- The modern woman who tries to juggle private and public roles with equilibrium will discover a spiritual ancestor in Alice Kirk Grierson. The colonel's lady spent most of her life at army outposts on the nineteenth-century western frontier, where she faced the problems of raising a large family while fulfilling the duties of a commanding officer's wife. Fortunately for history, she left a large and extraordinarily candid correspondence, which has now been edited by the author.
- Subject(s)
- Grierson, Alice Kirk, 1828-1888—Correspondence
- Grierson, Alice Kirk, 1828-1888
- United States. Army—Military life—History—19th century
- United States. Army
- 1800-1899
- Frontier and pioneer life—West (U.S.)
- Officers' spouses—West (U.S.)—Correspondence
- HISTORY—State & Local
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY—Historical
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Officers' spouses
- Armed Forces—Military life
- Dagelijks leven
- Frontier
- West (U.S.)—History—1860-1890
- États-Unis (Ouest)—Histoire—1860-1890
- West United States
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0585346631 (electronic bk.)
9780585346632 (electronic bk.)
0803228864
9780803228863
0803279299 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780803279292 (pbk. ; alk. paper) - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index.
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