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Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances M. A. Roe (1981, Trade Paperback)

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Weight: 0.98 lbs. Number of Pages: 387. ISBN10: 0803289057. Publication Date: 1981-10-01. Publisher: Bison Books.

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In the summer of 1871, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack married Fayette Washington Roe, fresh out of West Point, and left the East behind to join his infantry regiment at Fort Lyon, Colorado, where her sprightly account of frontier life begins. As a western army wife Frances Roe found herself in the shadow of the Rockies--Lt. Roe was stationed at Piegan Agency, Montana Territory, as well as in the Cheyenne country of Colorado and Indian Territory--and her book is filled with the beauty of the wilderness. She records the problems of camp and garrison life with servants, sand, and shortages, and the pleasures of parties and new friends, of hunting, fishing, and camping trips, and of long romps with her dog Hal. One chapter reports a fine summer's outing to twelve-year-old Yellowstone National Park in 1884. In the cavalcade of men's western memoirs, books written by frontier women have too often gone unheralded and almost unnoticed. Yet women were among the keenest observers of the nineteenth-century West and its inhabitants, as seen nowhere better than in Frances Roe's vivid account of life with the western army. Sandra L. Myres wrote widely on the history of the American West. Her published works include Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 180-1915.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803289057
ISBN-13
9780803289055
eBay Product ID (ePID)
566166

Product Key Features

Book Title
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
Author
Frances M. A. Roe
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 19th Century, Military / United States, General, Military Families
Publication Year
1981
Genre
Family & Relationships, History
Number of Pages
388 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
F596
Reviews
"Remininscences of army wives constitute a distinct genre of the literature of the American West. . . . Near the top of the list-indeed, at the very top-stands Frances M. A. Roe's Army Letters from an Officer's Wife."-Robert M. Utley,Great Plains Quarterly, ""Remininscences of army wives constitute a distinct genre of the literature of the American West. . . . Near the top of the list--indeed, at the very top--stands Frances M. A. Roe's Army Letters from an Officer's Wife.""--Robert M. Utley, Great Plains Quarterly, "Remininscences of army wives constitute a distinct genre of the literature of the American West. . . . Near the top of the list-indeed, at the very top-stands Frances M. A. Roe's Army Letters from an Officer's Wife."-Robert M. Utley, Great Plains Quarterly
Copyright Date
1981
Lccn
81-007571
Dewey Decimal
978/.02/0924
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes

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by f4wsoJun 18, 2023
A wife's view of army life at many western forts.
If you are into fiction or SiFi, this probably isn't for you. For a first hand insight into life at many western forts at an interesting time in western history from the perspective of an army wife living and making the best of often challenging conditions, this is a great source ans an easy read.
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