The Autobiography of a Pioneer Girl

By Lou Curtis Foster

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013385365
• ISBN13: 9781013385360
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Hassell Street Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Autobiography: Authentic account of pioneer life in Iowa in the 1800s

This is a vivid, well-written, authentic personal account of the life of a pioneer girl growing up in the mid-1800s on an Iowa prairie homestead. It chronicles the challenges, hardships, dangers, tragedies and joys of such a life. Mary Lizzie is the childhood name of Lou Curtis Foster (1853-1944), who narrates the story in the third person about her own childhood and family. Some highlights include a first-person account (taken from her father’s letters) of Henry Clay’s funeral procession (from the perspective of a close friend). Historians might be interested in her memory of Civil War and other song lyrics or her description of her time as a student at Iowa State College, beginning in 1872 and ending with her graduation in 1875. After college, Lou Curtis taught school and married fellow Iowa State alum, Luther Foster, who was later to become an early and long-standing president of New Mexico Agricultural State College, now New Mexico State University. (Please note that in a few places you will read words that are disturbing to our modern ear.) During her adult life Lou Curtis Foster served as president of the Wednesday Literary Society, and she was the founding member of New Mexico’s chapter of the American Association of University Women. Her poetry was published in an Anthology of Contemporary Poets — 1929-1930.