TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bentley,Anna Briggs
AU  - Foster,Emily
TI  - American Grit: A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier
T2  - Ohio River Valley Series
SN  - 9780813149417
AV  - F518 .A447 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Ohio River Valley
KW  - Women pioneers
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Pioneers
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: 1826-1827; Chapter Two: 1828-1830; Chapter Three: 1831-1835; Illustration; Chapter Four: 1836-1842; Chapter Five: 1843-1847; Chapter Six: 1850-1858; Chapter Seven: The Later Years; Epilogue; Appendix One: The Children of Roger Brooke IV and Mary Matthews Brooke; Appendix Two: The Children of Isaac Briggs and Hannah Brooke Briggs; Appendix Three: The Children of Joseph E. Bentley and Anna Briggs Bentley; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; 2; b
N2  - In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the
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