The acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless Society Girls who left their affluent lives to rough it as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916.
In reconstructing their journey, Wickenden has created an exhilarating saga about two intrepid women and the settling up of the West..
Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers\' buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable people the women got to know.
He hadn\'t let on that they would be considered dazzling prospective brides for the locals.
The young cattle rancher who had lured them west, Ferry Carpenter, had promised them the adventure of a lifetime.
Their students walked or skied, in tattered clothes and shoes tied together with string.
They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on horseback, often in blinding blizzards.
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by Society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado.
The acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless Society Girls who left their affluent lives to rough it as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916.
The acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless Society Girls who left their affluent lives to rough it as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916
