Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780813192673
Pub Date: 04 Nov 2009
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Series: Ohio River Valley Series
Illustrations: illus, maps
Description:
In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier.