Letters of long ago /
Letters written by Agnes Just Reid as she listened to her mother, Emma Thompson Just, relate incidents from her life as a pioneer on the Blackfoot River in Idaho during the 1870's-80s. The incidents and dates recorded in the letters were claimed to all be true but the letters themselves were f...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Salt Lake City, Utah :
Tanner Trust Fund, University of Utah Library,
[1973]
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Series: | Utah, the Mormons, and the West ;
number 2. |
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| Summary: | Letters written by Agnes Just Reid as she listened to her mother, Emma Thompson Just, relate incidents from her life as a pioneer on the Blackfoot River in Idaho during the 1870's-80s. The incidents and dates recorded in the letters were claimed to all be true but the letters themselves were fiction. Correspondence between Emma Thompson Just and her father, George Thompson, did take place during the twenty-four years he resided in England and she in the Idaho Territory but the letters were not preserved through the years. Agnes Just Reid has given a classic account of pioneer life in the form of letters so skillfully and artistically drawn that the reader is able to share the triumphs, frustrations, happinesses, and sorrows in the full life of Emma Just as she builds a home and rears a family in Blackfoot Valley. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 93 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Related Items: | The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy forms part of the Book Design Section of the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive. |