A Fair Distance: Lois Boblett's Western Memoir 1851-1922 - Softcover

L. Darlene Spargo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982174071 ISBN 13: 9780982174074

Publisher: Columbine Ink LLC, 2009

Synopsis

A Fair Distance is a fascinating verbatim account of one woman's journey across half the Continent and 70 years of Western history.

Lois Whitcomb Boblett was a Western pioneer who wrote her memoir in 1922. Her first-hand narrative of settling the West begins in 1851 with sod-busing the Great Plains. She prospected in the Pikes Peak gold rush, fought Indians on the edge of the Arizona frontier, traveled through California and homesteaded in Washington Territory. Lois's final great adventure was the stampede to the Klondike.

Western historian L. Darlene Spargo has meticulously researched and verified Lois's vibrant memoir.

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Review:

A Fair Distance is now in print and it is a very valuable resource to reaserachers and genealogists as well as those who are curious about the day-to-day details of the great migration westwards.

Lois's memories span the years 1851-1922, almost all her life, and half the continent. --Skagit River Journal, 2010

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbine Ink LLC
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0982174071
• ISBN 13: 9780982174074
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Anne Justen