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Delphia

by Lois Scott · 2000

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Adapting to the hard life around the turn of the 1900s in both Oklahoma and Texas was the legacy left by the author's grandmother, Delphia. Lois Scott, who serves as book editor for the "Victoria Advocate, used records and oral history left by her grandmother to weave a fascinating story of the hardships endured by women on the western and southwestern frontier.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
womenwomenMore like thisLess of this
Setting
frontierfrontierMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 143 pages

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