Writing Her Own Life, Volume 14: Imogene Welch, Western Rural Schoolteacher

by Mary Clearman Blew

Mary Clearman Blew's aunt Imogene Welch embodied the hard-working values of depression-era western America. In Writing Her Own Life, Blew builds a narrative around excerpts from the diaries Imogene kept during World War II while she taught in rural Montana schools and later in Washington State. Through her diary entries we learn of the war's effects on Imogene as she moved from rural, family-centered life in Montana to independent if somewhat lonelier...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806135816
• ISBN13: 9780806135816
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"