Author: Kohl, Edith Eudora, new introduction by Glenda Riley,
Title: Land of the Burnt Thigh: women homesteaders on the South Dakota frontier.
Description: St. Paul, MN, Minnesota Hist Society Press, 1986. VG PB. Thousands of single women who hoped for land & money were among the hordes of homesteaders who settled the American west. First published in 1938. Edith & Ida Ammons moved to central South Dakota in 1907 to try homesteading near the Lower Brule Indian Reservation. Within a few weeks, Edith was running a newspaper & Ida was teaching school.

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