American Grit
Subtitle: A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier (Ohio River Valley Series)
Contributors: Emily Foster (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780813122656
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: general; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Women's Studies - History; c 1800 to c 1900; History: American; Ohio - Local History; U.S. History - Westward Expansion; United States - 19th Century; History; Gender Studies; Sociology; Pioneers; Ohio; Bentley, Anna Briggs; United States - Civil War; Bentley, Anna Briggs,; United States - State & Local - General; 1796-1890; Correspondence; Frontier and pioneer life; Ohio River Valley; Pioneer women
First sentence: Joseph, thirty-seven, Anna, thirty, their children, and a black servant named Henry left Maryland for Ohio in the spring of 1826.