Title: Western clearings
Description: Kirkland moved west with her husband to Detroit in 1835, and they founded the town of Pinckney in Southeastern Michigan in 1837. She wrote two books while in Michigan; *A New Home; Who’ll Follow* and *Forest Life*. They returned to NYC in 1843, partly because her Pinckney neighbors were not pleased with her portrayal of them. Back in New York she wrote a third book about Michigan; *Western Clearings*, and went on to become a highly successful novelist.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Frontier and pioneer life, Western stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, West (u.s.), fiction
Places: United States, West (U.S.)
Time periods: 19th century