Land of the Burnt Thigh
Gelesen von Matthew McNaughton
Edith Eudora Kohl
(4,677 Sterne; 31 Bewertungen)
"It will be all right," Ida Mary told her father cheerfully. "It is only for eight months. Nothing can happen in eight months."
Edith and Ida Mary Ammons, two slightly-built young women raised on exciting stories of a glamorous Wild West, bade their father good-bye in St. Louis and boarded a steamboat up the Missouri river on their way to South Dakota, to make something of themselves on a prairie homestead.
They set up near the “Land of the Burnt Thigh” — the Lower Brulé Indian Reservation. It was 1907, and though the days of the covered wagon had passed, conditions on the prairie were harsh, and they were dangerously unprepared. Even experienced homesteaders with better equipment, greater physical strength, and more money struggled against the long summer droughts and deadly cold winters. "My ma says we'll starve and freeze yet", said a six year-old boy from a neighboring farm.
With the support of a tight-knit and welcoming community, Edith and Ida Mary dug deep into resources of ingenuity and endurance they didn't know they had, embarked on ventures they never would have imagined, and emerged as icons of independent female resilience and accomplishment.
In her memoir "Land of the Burnt Thigh", Edith Kohl (neé Ammons) wove a vivid tale of her and her sister's struggles together with those of her neighbors, placing it in the historical context of the massive migration into the West during the decade leading up to America's entry into the First World War. (Summary by Matthew McNaughton) (8 hr 4 min)
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Bewertungen
An Amazing Story, Beautifully Read
budong
(5 Sterne)
Despite its not unexpected prejudices, this book is fascinating. I could not stop listening, it pulled me so hard to continue. What a story! And what a life! I hope the reader is hard at work on the next book in the series. He is excellent! This book reveals the hardships and triumphs of the early 20th century settlement (and the taking of the land from the indigenous people) in South Dakota. A true feminist saga, although I’m pretty certain the author would balk at the term.
Dawne Cowne
(5 Sterne)
this author has wrote 2 more books. I wish Livrvox would offer them
Huckleberry Gap
(5 Sterne)
Fascinating account of early 1900s homesteading in South Dakota. Well worth the time.
demonstrates the depravity of humans
the transnationalist justice warrior
(5 Sterne)
Nowhere In this story, do the cis gendered white women who are colonizing the prairie realize their complicity in the subjugation of non-binary LatinX guest workers. If you enjoyed this interesting and well-read story, you are a literal Aldof Hitler. Shame on you. The post sponsored by the Pioneer Seed company(tm), who reminds you to support your conglomerated corporate farming overlords.