An Army Doctor's Wife on the Frontier: The Letters of Emily McCorkle Fitzgerald from Alaska and the Far West, 1874-78

by Emily McCorkle Fitzgerald

Book Overview

Emily FitzGerald was one of the first white women to live in Alaska, less than a decade after the U.S. purchased it from Russia. In 1874 she accompanied her husband to Sitka, where he was surgeon at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803268599
• ISBN13: 9780803268593
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"

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Sitka, Alaska Frontier Life in the 1870s

She was one of the first American women to live in Alaska, less than a decade after the US purchased it from Russia. In 1874, she lived with her husband in Sitka, where he was a surgeon at an army post. These letters to her mother in Philadelphia describe to rigors of raising children & making a home on the frontier, the social life of an army wife & then her letters home from Fort Lapwai in Idaho, where she witnessed the Nez Perce War.