Title
The Lieutenant's Lady
Files
Description
When Linnie Colsworth came from the East to visit relatives in Omaha, she was plunged into a wider, more hazardous world than she had ever known. In the wake of the Civil War, land seekers were pouring into the West and displacing the Indian tribes. Although Omaha was beginning to put on social airs, Nebraska was still a raw territory. Not one to take shelter and spend her days sewing and serving tea, Linnie traveled up the Missouri to deliver a "Dear John" message to her cousin's fiancé, a handsome lieutenant--and in a wink became the wife of this stranger. They came to love and trust each other, and their survival on the frontier required nothing less, and a good deal more, from them than that. Their harrowing story is based on the diary of an actual army wife who recorded the daily weather-internal and external. -- Amazon.com
Keywords
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Military spouses -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction; Women pioneers -- United States -- Fiction; Man-woman relationships; Military spouses; Women pioneers; Nebraska -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction; Nebraska; United States; United States, West; 1800-1899; Fiction; History;
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9780803259140
Publication Date
1942
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
City
New York, NY
Object Description
275 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Aldrich, Bess Streeter, "The Lieutenant's Lady" (1942). Books by Bess Streeter Aldrich. 11.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/aldrich_book/11
