Review of Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919

The experiences of a single female homesteader on the Great Plains of South Dakota are revealed in Bachelor Bess. This collection of letters spanning 1909-19 was written by Elizabeth Corey to her family in Iowa. The letters focus primarily on the social activities of Corey, who worked as a schoolteacher while homesteading in the West River country of South Dakota