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I loved this letter to Selden. It was absolutly fascinating. I cannot believe she has a kitchen with no doors so the animals just walk in. I laughed when she said a rat jumped into bed with her. I think she is a very courageous woman to live the way she does. She is so hardworking I am amazed at the amount of activity she does in a day. I would be completely exhausted. I felt bad for her when she said that she was homesick. She talked to another woman who said she was so homesick she could die and I can image life was 20 times harder in California then it was in the more civilized east coast. - LeAnn Taggart | I loved this letter to Selden. It was absolutly fascinating. I cannot believe she has a kitchen with no doors so the animals just walk in. I laughed when she said a rat jumped into bed with her. I think she is a very courageous woman to live the way she does. She is so hardworking I am amazed at the amount of activity she does in a day. I would be completely exhausted. I felt bad for her when she said that she was homesick. She talked to another woman who said she was so homesick she could die and I can image life was 20 times harder in California then it was in the more civilized east coast. - LeAnn Taggart | ||
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| + | While reading this I couldn't help but wonder what her husband was doing while she was busy being a peace maker, cook, laundress, seamstress etc. What were the chances of her husband being successful in his venture? Could he have been making money off the gold rush? It seemed to me that while the men were wildly seeking gold the women were actually making a living in the various different business ventures that they began. I was amazed at the amount of responsibility she had in the community, I wonder what kind of life she lead back home and if it had any resemblance to her lifestyle in california. I can't imagine that hogs would have been running through her kitchen though! Why did she leave though? Was it just meant to be a short venture to get more money? Her letter does show that women who lived in less settled communities on the frontier had more opportunities then there Eastern counterparts might have, however they lead very difficult lives. So who had it better?-Emma Peck | ||
== Petitions of the Cherokee Women’s Council on Removal, 1817, 1818 == | == Petitions of the Cherokee Women’s Council on Removal, 1817, 1818 == | ||
