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Sod-House Days: Letters from a Kansas Homesteader, 1877-1983 Paperback - 1983
by Howard Ruede; John Ise (Editor)
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- Title Sod-House Days: Letters from a Kansas Homesteader, 1877-1983
- Author Howard Ruede; John Ise (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.
- Date 1983-11-15
- ISBN 9780700602346 / 0700602348
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.53 x 5.53 x 0.66 in (21.67 x 14.05 x 1.68 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Geographic Orientation: Kansas
- Library of Congress subjects Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas - Osborne, Ruede, Howard - Correspondence
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 83081787
- Dewey Decimal Code 978.121
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University Press of Kansas, 1983. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. Howard Ruede was twenty-two years old in March of 1877 when he rode on a freight wagon into Osborne City, a community in west-central Kansas. A young man of courage, common sense, and independence, Ruede was filled with the optimism and determination typical of the men and women who took up the challenge of homesteading on the prairie.Brought together by economist John Ise and first published in 1937, Sod-House Days is a collection of the letters Ruede wrote to his family in Pennsylvania chronicling his first year in Kansas. In minute detail these letters show the hard, wearying work faced by homesteaders in the 1870s, their almost unbelievable poverty, the hardships of poor food, inadequate clothing, crowding, unsanitary conditions, the lack of decent drinking water, the bedbugs and fleas, flies and mosquitoes. We see Ruede struggling to stay out of debt, walking miles to pick up the mail or to visit a neighbor, working until his bare…
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Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 1983 University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1983. Softcover/Trade Wraps. 3rd Printing by line number. Reprint of the Columbia University original. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: VG; rubbing to wraps and spine crease. No DJ. Pictorial Wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is creased but not split. 248 pp.8vo. The homesteader Ruede possessed the ability of expressing himself clearly in writing with his word pictures giving vivid accounts of experiences gained in carving a farm from the Kansas plains. This is the story an ordinary person with heroic dimensions who is faced with drought, grasshoppers, prairie fires, and other disasters but kept trying again and again in a struggle against the environment. A clean and very presentable copy.
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Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 1983 University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1983. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Reprint of the Columbia University original. Book Condition: Near Fine. No DJ. Pictorial Wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split. 248 pp. The homesteader Ruede possessed the ability of expressing himself clearly in writing with his word pictures giving vivid accounts of experiences gained in carving a farm from the Kansas plains. This is the story an ordinary person with heroic dimensions who is faced with drought, grasshoppers, prairie fires, and other disasters but kept trying again and again in a struggle against the environment. A clean and very presentable copy.
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