"Calof\'sstory] has the \'electricity\' one occasionally finds in primary sources.
Rachel Calof\'s Story co. it is a strong addition to the literature of women\'s experience on the frontier." --Lillian Schlissel In 1894, eighteen-year-old Rachel Bella Kahn travelled from Russia to the United States for an arranged marriage to Abraham Calof, an immigrant Homesteader in North Dakota.
It is powerful, shocking, and primitive, with the kind of appeal primary sources often attain without effort.... "Calof\'sstory] has the \'electricity\' one occasionally finds in primary sources