I Married a Soldier
Lydia Spencer Lane's account of her life as a young army bride on the early southwestern frontier is both invaluable history and delightful commentary. As an officer's wife, Lane left her home in Pennsylvania in 1854 to accompany her new husband to his first post in the West--the encampment at Fort Inge, Texas, then in the midst of a yellow-fever epidemic. For the next sixteen years, Lane crossed the Great Plains by wagon seven times, traveled nearly 8,000 miles, raised three children, and became accustomed to tours of duty that required the family to move at least every six months to a different set of military forts, frontier garrisons, and…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8263-2764-2
- EAN: 9780826327642
- Produktnummer: 34255864
- Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1987
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'696 KB
Über den Autor
Darlis A. Miller is professor emerita of history at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.
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