Land of The Burnt Thigh: A Lively Story of Women Homesteaders On The South Dakota Frontier

by Edith Eudora Kohl

Overview

This tale of two sisters courageously homesteading on the prairie in 1907 provides a lively portrait of frontier life.

"Interesting in its spirit and atmosphere, and it is told simply and well. . . This is an unusual record, well worth reading."—New York Times Book Review

"Mrs. Kohl has told this story of South Dakota with a simplicity, a directness, and an understanding of its quietly heroic element which make her book an appealing as well as a significant contribution to the latter-day history of the pioneers."-Saturday Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873516785
Publisher:	Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication date:	08/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	330
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Edith Eudora Ammons and her sister Ida Mary moved to central South Dakota in 1907 to try homesteading near the “Land of the Burnt Thigh”—the Lower Brule Indian Reservation. These two young women, both in their twenties and “timid as mice,” found a community of homesteaders (including several other single women).