Categories: Books, Homesteading
Tags: homesteader, Oregon, Pioneer, teacher
Author: Alice day Pratt
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Alice, a spinster teacher in the South, decided to pack up and travel to Oregon to teach and homestead. This book takes the reader through this trip with her. She had a strength and great hope for her success in a new state doing a difficult job on her own. "They've got the Project look. It's strange, the look; it's hope, I suppose." p.31 The book is a quick and delightful read.
The Adventure
The Round Up
Business is Business
The New Land in Autumn
The New Land in Spring
Incubation
The Life of the Pioneers
“And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
White Leghorns
Acquaintance
The Bachelors
The Old Oregonian
The Quest of Diogenes
Dinner in the Basin
“Behold, In the Tent”
Spring
Aunt Polly, Pioneer
“To-morrow and T0-morrow and T0-morrow”
Bossy and Psalmmy
Fly
The Companions
The Survival of the Fittest
The Witness
Plowing
The Old Oregonian Again
To Have and to Hold
Afterward
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