Frontier women II microfilm set, 1821-1919 [microform].

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Frontier women II microfilm set, 1821-1919 [microform].

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Women's letters and manuscripts. Written by early settlers of Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Includes: Sallie and J. Bowers: Letters (in WA MSS S-1670 L436);John Brown Family Letters (WA MSS S-1671 B8131); Paulina Cohen: Letter to R.E. Coontz (WA MSS S-359; C66); Elizabeth Bacon Custer: Letter to Mr. Thomas A. Warburton (WA MSS 127), Letters to Mrs. Kingsley (WA MSS S-93 C966), Letter to Mr. Bagby (WA MSS S-393 C966), Letter to Miss Watson (in WA MSS S-1643), Letter to [Frederick Samuel] Dellenbaugh (WA MSS S-1641 C966), and Letter to General Wright (WA MSS S-1642 C966); Louise C. Denver: Mexican War Pension (WA MSS S-587 D4375); Mary C. Denver: Letter to J.W. Denver (WA MSS S-528 D439); Anne Ellis: Letters (in WA MSS S-41); Elizabeth Hukill Fickes: Diary (WA MSS S-1684 F446); Jessie Benton Frémont: Letter to Mr. Claiborne (WA MSS S-1668 F8861); Lettie E. Garrison: Letter to My Dear Sister (WA MSS S-1199 G193); George H. Hall: Overland Letters (WA MSS S-288 H1422); Sarah McAllister Hartman: Reminiscences (WA MSS 247); Mary Hayden: Letter to Harry M. Boutelle (WA MSS S-280 H324). Also: Sue Hill: Letters (in WA MSS S-1298); Catherine Hutton: Account of a Visit by George Catlin (WA MSS S-1646 H979); Mary Benjamin Kirkpatrick: Letters to her Husband Charlie (WA MSS S-1255 K636); Caroline M. Moss: Letter to Captain O.P. Moss (WA MSS S-563 M855); Mattie Pajoman: Letter to Miss Saunders (WA MSS S-1649 P168); Noah Pease: Letters (WA MSS S-21 P321); Mary Rice: Letter to her Sister, Hannah Rice (WA MSS S-1096 R365); George Sand: Letter to Edouard Thomas Charton (WA MSS S-461 Sa56); Mary Ann Scott: Letter to Mrs. Emily Piatt (WA MSS S-1650 Sco85); William Shively: Letter to Joseph Lenhart (WA S-1651 Sh69); Abigail Raymond Smith: Missionary Letters (WA MSS S-1284 Sm5); Eliza Hart Spalding: Note (WA MSS 434); Tabitha Lowe Stennett: Untitled Account of Growing Up in Iowa (WA MSS S-1653 St42); Frances Fuller Victor: Letters to Elwood Evans (in WA MSS 172); Harriet Woolley: Letterbook (WA MSS S-1682); and women's letters in Miscellaneous Missouri Letters (WA MSS S-1661).

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Grerier, Elmira.

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Brown, Wealthy.

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Hartman, Sarah McAllister.

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Holland, Julian

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Fickes, Elizabeth Hukill, b. 1823.

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Pajoman, Mattie.

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Brown family.

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Kirkpatrick, Mary Benjamin.

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Garrison, Lettie E.

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Shively, William

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Ellis, Annette

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Pease, Martin A.

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Sand, George, 1804-1876

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George Sand (pseudonym of Amantine Lucille Aurore Dupin Dudevant) was a French author. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1829-1872. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122590144 George Sand was the pseudonym of Mme. Dudevant. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1857, 1875, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155886629 George Sand (pseudonym of Amantine Lucille Aurore Dupin Dudevant ) was a Frenc...

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Hall, George H.

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Cohen, Paulina.

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Hutton, Catherine, 1756-1846

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Rice, Mary

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Loser, Belle.

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Hayden, Mary, 1830-1919

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Hall, Mary, fl. 1849-1850.

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Brown, Frederick Z.

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Wanzer, Sarah.

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Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933

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Shively, Lucy A.

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Bowers, Sallie.

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Burnham, Sarah Jane.

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Pease, Flavia.

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Brown, Jason, 1823-1912

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