Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Bluesky Threads Doesn’t necessarily need to be American. I’d just like to read a relatively unedited diary of the daily life of someone living a frontier lifestyle. Thanks in advance for any ideas! by 14kanthropologist
BernardFerguson1944 on December 6, 2025 6:33 pm · *Forts and Forays: A Dragoon in New Mexico, 1850-1856* by Dr. James A. Bennett. · *Boldly They Rode: A History of the First Colorado Regiment of Volunteers* by Ovando J. Hollister. Both books are written with evident 19th century prejudices.
LTinTCKY on December 6, 2025 6:47 pm Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16623 Domestic Manners of the Americans by Francis Trollope: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10345
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· *Forts and Forays: A Dragoon in New Mexico, 1850-1856* by Dr. James A. Bennett.
· *Boldly They Rode: A History of the First Colorado Regiment of Volunteers* by Ovando J. Hollister.
Both books are written with evident 19th century prejudices.
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16623
Domestic Manners of the Americans by Francis Trollope: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10345