My Ever Dear Charlie: Letters Home From The Dakota Territory

By Arthur Gibbs Draper and The Draper Family Trust

Alone but for six children ages one to fourteen in her 16 foot by 20 foot soddy Fannie Draper kept her husband in Missouri apprised of conditions on the prairie during one of the worst winters in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762739525
• ISBN13: 9780762739523
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Twodot
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Authentic account of prairie life

The beauty of this book is that you are stepping inside the intimate circles of a real American family who resolutely and regularly corresponded with warmth and wit, and sometimes despair. This is not a fictionalized narrative; it is a collection of real letters, edited by a descendent of the writers. Still, you can imagine it being turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep as the heroine (Fannie McClurg) a 40-year-old mother of six, alone with her father on the Dakota frontier, fondly, longingly, writing to her husband back in Missouri.