Nothing daunted
the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
by Dorothy Wickenden
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"A captivating book about Dorothy Wickenden's grandmother, who left her affluent East Coast life to "rough it" as a teacher in Colorado in 1916"-- Provided by publisher.
"A captivating full-length book derived from a widely read and much beloved New Yorker piece about Wickenden's grandmother and her grandmother's best friend who left their affluent East Coast lives to "rough it" as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916"-- Provided by publisher.
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Education, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Teachers, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Biography, History, Teachers, biography, Colorado, biography, Education, united states, history, Colorado, history, Women, united states, biography, nyt:e-book-nonfiction=2011-07-10, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewedPeople
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Nothing daunted: the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
2011, Scribner
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In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, close friends from childhood and graduates of Smith College, left home in Auburn, New York for the wilds of northwestern Colorado. Bored by their society luncheons, charity work, and the effete young men who courted them, they learned that two teaching jobs were available in a remote mountaintop schoolhouse and applied -- shocking their families and friends. They took the new railroad over the Continental Divide and made their way by spring wagon to the tiny settlement of Elkhead, where they lived with a family of homesteaders. - Jacket flap.
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