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The Wide Northwest: Historic Narrative of America´s Wonder Land as Seen by a Pioneer Teacher
Leoti L. West
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Paperback. Leoti L West (1851-1933) left her Iowa home to teach at a school in Washington Territory. Undertaking the two-week journey alone, the young teacher arrived in a Northwest that was still very much a pioneer territory. This book details her teaching career. Num Pages: 277 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Leoti L. West (1851–1933) had longed for the opportunity “to be west and grow up with the country.” In 1878, at the age of twenty-seven, West left her Iowa home to teach at a new school in Washington Territory. Undertaking the two-week journey alone, the young teacher arrived in a Northwest that was still very much a pioneer territory. The school that West opened was one of the first in the area and soon attracted students from all over the Northwest. By the end of West’s first term, her original class of seventeen had grown to nearly one hundred students ... Read more
Leoti L. West (1851–1933) had longed for the opportunity “to be west and grow up with the country.” In 1878, at the age of twenty-seven, West left her Iowa home to teach at a new school in Washington Territory. Undertaking the two-week journey alone, the young teacher arrived in a Northwest that was still very much a pioneer territory. The school that West opened was one of the first in the area and soon attracted students from all over the Northwest. By the end of West’s first term, her original class of seventeen had grown to nearly one hundred students ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803298583
SKU
V9780803298583
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About Leoti L. West
Josephine Corliss Preston was the superintendent of public instruction for the state of Washington. Brenda K. Jackson is an assistant professor of history at Belmont University. She is the author of Domesticating the West: The Re-creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class (Nebraska 2005).
Reviews for The Wide Northwest: Historic Narrative of America´s Wonder Land as Seen by a Pioneer Teacher
“Reading this book is like having a relaxing conversation with an old friend. It is history, and readers will learn a great deal about the pioneer Northwest. But they will also become enamored of a unique lady whose passion was teaching.”—Dan Hays, Statesman Journal