The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson

by Alice Kirk Grierson

Book Overview

The modern woman who tries to juggle private and public roles with equilibrium will discover a spiritual ancestor in Alice Kirk Grierson. The colonel's lady spent most of her life at army outposts on the nineteenth-century western frontier, where she faced the problems of raising a large family while fulfilling the duties of a commanding officer's wife. Fortunately for history, she left a large and extraordinarily candid correspondence, which has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803279299
• ISBN13: 9780803279292
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Compelling

Through her letters to her husband, her sons and others, Alice Grierson becomes a friend you won't forget--not her hardy life nor her excruciating death. Her candor on intimate subjects, such as contraception and depression, make her seem modern. Her word pictures of soldier and family life in isolated places such as Fort Concho, Texas--where her child, Edith, died of typhoid fever and was buried with military honors--pull you into a vanished time whose routine hazards helped shape the American character.