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Happy as a big sunflower : adventures in the West, 1876-1880
- Title
- Happy as a big sunflower : adventures in the West, 1876-1880 / Rolf Johnson ; edited and with an introduction by Richard E. Jensen.
- Author
- Johnson, Rolf, 1856-1922.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2000], ©2000.
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| Text | Request in advance | F672.P5 J64 2000 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Jensen, Richard E.
- Description
- xxix, 270 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In 1876 Rolf Johnson and his family left Illinois for Phelps County, Nebraska. Rolf left home in 1879 "with the intention of going west for a season." His departure may have been sparked by the marital fever exhibited by a female suitor.
- Rolf felt he was "not quite prepared to leave the state of single blessedness for that of double misery." In Sidney, Nebraska, he ran with the "sporting" element, who showed him photographs of "fast women of the town stark naked." He found employment with a wagon freighter headed for the Black Hills, where he saw Calamity Jane in action. Rolf's education continued until the diaries end in Cubero, New Mexico, in 1880. He returned to Phelps County in 1882 and remained there for most of his life.
- Rolf's lively diaries offer an entertaining eyewitness account of pioneer life and an unmatched resource for historians."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Johnson, Rolf, 1856-1922 > Diaries
- West (U.S.) > Biography
- Frontier and pioneer life > Nebraska > Phelps County
- Pioneers > West (U.S.) > Diaries
- Swedish Americans > Nebraska > Phelps County > Diaries
- Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
- West (U.S.) > Social life and customs
- Phelps County (Neb.) > Biography
- Pioneers > Nebraska > Phelps County > Diaries
- Phelps County (Neb.) > Social life and customs > 19th century
- Note
- "A Bison original."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-263) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Illinois Homeland -- 2. The Trip to Nebraska -- 3. Phelps County, Nebraska -- 4. Summer Rambles in Eastern Nebraska -- 5. Back to Phelps County -- 6. The Buffalo Hunt -- 7. Home Again, Politics and Romances -- 8. The Harvest Circuit -- 9. More Politics and Romances at Home -- 10. The Execution of Stephen D. Richards -- 11. The Black Hills and the Southwest -- List of People Mentioned in RoIf Johnson's Diaries.
- ISBN
- 0803276141 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00036381
- OCLC
- ocm43790455
- SCSB-3893324
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries