In July 1909 twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Corey left her Iowa farm to stake her claim to a South Dakota homestead. Over the next ten years, as she continued her schoolteaching career and carved ou
Arranging his material by genre and chronologically, Gerber (English, State U. of New York, Brockport) provides an overview of Cather's life; examines the early, middle, and final novels; assesses her
Readers everywhere fell for Elizabeth Corey, the irrepressible, independent, and fearless Bachelor Bess, whose letters home to Iowa gave us a firsthand account of her adventures on a South Dakota home
