Edith Eudora Kohl

Edith & her sister Ida Mary moved to central South Dakota in 1907 to try homesteading - They were both in their 20s. They lived in a tiny tarpaper shack on 160 waterless, sunbaked, and snow blasted acres for eight months, until they could "prove up" their claim. With other homesteaders they battled prairie fires, rattlesnakes and a blizzard, founded their own newspaper, opened a postoffice etc. MN Historical Society Press.

The third book in the trilogy of Edith Ammons Kohl.

Continuation of Edith Ammons Kohl's personal experiences on the frontier.

The historical accounts of Edith's experience as a woman on the unsettled frontier.