Mollie Dorsey Sanford (1838–1915)
Autor(a) de Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1838-12-17
- Data de falecimento
- 1915-01-04
- Local de enterro
- Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado, USA
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Rising Sun, Indiana, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Denver, Colorado, USA
- Locais de residência
- Indiana, USA
Nebraska, USA
Colorado, USA - Ocupação
- diarist
pioneer - Pequena biografia
- Mollie Dorsey Sanford was born in Rising Sun, Indiana. When she was a teenager, her family moved to Nebraska City, Nebraska, where she started a diary. In 1860, she married Byron Sanford after a nearly three-year engagement, during which time she worked as a seamstress, teacher, and cook. Shortly after their marriage, they went by oxen-drawn wagon across the plains to settle in the Colorado Territory, a journey of about eight weeks. Her diary was later published as Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories 1857 to 1866. It's considered an important document of Western American history and one of the most vivid and accurate portrayals of life on the 19th-century American frontier. The book is on the reading lists in American History classes at many high schools and colleges.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Membros
- 113
- Popularidade
- #173,161
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 2
Because it is a journal, it doesn't flow as well as if it were a novel, and halfway through I stopped reading, but picked it up about 6 months later to finish, and it felt like I had never stopped reading. Mollie mentions that she wished to be a writer at times, and some of her poems are included. I'm not a fan of poems, but mention it only to say that she truly did have a gift for writing, so this isn't like reading just any girl's journal.… (mais)