Edith Eudora Kohl

5361. Land of the Burnt Thigh, by Edith Eudora Kohl (read 24 Mar 2016) This is a 1938 book republished in 1986. It tells how the author, age 23, and her sister left St. Louis in 1908 to live on land not too far from Presho, South Dakota, to prove up on a claim, at first living in a one room shack. They opened a trading post, started a weekly newspaper, and ran a post office. The author tells of the fierce heat, the harsh winter, the lack of water, the prairie fires--one has to empathize with them in the struggle they went thru. There is not too much pleasantness and one gets the feeling that the difficulties they go through are not worthwhile. But they hang on, prove up on their land, and her sister marries and continues to live on it.. It is a 20th century pioneer story which seems like a 19th century ordeal. One cannot help but admire what seems like a struggle they could not succeed at--but they do.… (altro)