The Lieutenant's Lady

The Lieutenant's Lady

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

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