A True Picture of Emigration - Softcover

Burlend, Edward; Burlend, Rebecca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803260830 ISBN 13: 9780803260832

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western Illinois. It was a whole new world for a family that had never been more than fifty miles from home in rural Yorkshire.

Rebecca’s narrative, written with the help of her son, was first published in 1848 as a pamphlet for people of her own class in England who might be considering migration to America. It records the daily struggle and also the satisfactions of homesteading in the Old Northwest: life in a log cabin; food, clothes, and furniture of the period; early churches and schools; the unspoiled countryside and its denizens. With courage and self-reliance Rebecca Burlend accepted the privations and difficulties of this pioneering venture.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803260830
• ISBN 13: 9780803260832
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 167
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