You haven't asked about my wedding or what I wore : poems of courtship on the North American frontier /
"Nowhere / on these parchment leaves do I find / myself, my likeness, my name, / not a whisper-Cynthia-not one / breath of me."For thirty years poet Jana Harris researched the diaries and letters of North American pioneer women. While the names and experiences of the authors varied, Harris...
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University of Alaska Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Illustrations; Foreword; The Gift of a Found Half Moon / Mary Hallen, Western Ontario, Canada, 1850; Typus Orbis Terrarum / Lucy Thompson, Second Wife of Rev. Jason Lee, October 1839; A Mighty Fortress Is Our God; Considering Her Answer to a Letter Sent By Emigrant, Addressed: "Catherine Sager, Somewhere in Oregon" / Catherine Sager Pringle, age 19, December 21, 1854, Salem, Oregon Territory.
- While Preparing to Ride to a Cayuse Village of New Converts Inundated by Measles, Dr. Marcus WhitmanI nventories His Pack Horse's Bags While Considering: Which Sermon, Which Psalms, Which Prayers / near Ft. Walla Walla, Oregon Country, November 1847; Lament of the Slatted Sunbonnets / Kate Thomas (b. 1841); Every Stormy Wind That Blows; Cloth / Elizabeth Millar Wilson (b. 1830), The Dalles, Oregon; The Doll / Marianne Hunsaker Edwards D'Arcy (b. 1842), Oregon City; The Stove / Martha Gay Masterson Remembers October 28, 1852 Eugene, Oregon Territory.
- Brother Churchianity's Garden / Matilda Sager Delaney (b. 1839)An Answer For Mr. Anderson / Sarah Jane Sturgess, age 13 ư, 1851, near Ft. Vancouver, Oregon Territory; That Long Looked-For Day / Elder Edgerton's Confidential Advice to Courting Gentlemen, Western Ontario, Canada, 1862; "Verbena Tea and Dill Hinder the Witches of Their Will" / The Jottings of Granny Wintersteen, undated; Cynthia, Judge Stafford's First Wife / Auburn (Baker County), Oregon, March 24, 1863; About These Trumpeters That Line My Walls / Elizabeth Shepard Holtgrieve (b. 1840).
- Mrs. Darby, Third Cousin to a Royal Confectioner, Gives Advice on Baking a Wedding Cake Modeled after the Spire atop London's St. Bride's Church- / for Fifty Guests including Keepsakes, Spokane, Washington Territory, 1859The Brides of Christ Consider the Hunger of 100 Children, the 40 Sick, and Many Old Men Who Linger without Relative or Memory / Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart to Sister Mary of the Precious Blood, Mission of the Sisters of Providence, Ft. Vancouver, Washington Territory, 1864; The Widow: Her Song without Words sans Piano / Elizabeth Paschal Dillon Gay (b. 1838).
- At First, Judge Bacon was Reluctant to allow his Daughter to be Courted by the Son of a BlacksmithJésus et Marie, ma force et ma gloire; The Matter of the Raspberries / Mother Veronica of the Crucifix Petitions the Bishop of Montreal, St. Mary's Academy, Portland, Oregon, 1865; Je Mets Ma Confiance; How We Got On / Reverend T.L. Jones (b. 1841), Portland, Oregon; The Grass Hunter / Justin Gibson, 1867; On the Second Through Train / The Widow Jones (Sarah Ann Givens) Recalls Her Honeymoon, May 10, 1869; The Gift of Granny Wintersteen / New Harmony, Kansas, 1869.
