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Memoirs of seven sisters : typescript
Creator
Title
Memoirs of seven sisters : typescript.
Production
Berkeley, California, 1925-1931.
Physical Description
1 volume (circa 130 pages)
Language
English
Notes
Title from title page.
The bulk of the memoir was written in 1925. Contains later typescript and manuscript additions, including a typescript insert dated 1931.
In English.
Provenance
Purchased from Tavistock Books on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Laura Walker Newton (1866-1946) migrated from North Carolina to Colorado in 1871, where she worked as a cowgirl before attending the University of Denver and becoming a teacher, circa 1885-1890.
Summary
Typescript memoir, corrected, documenting the lives of the Walker family in North Carolina, Colorado, and California, circa 1866-1931. Describes the lives of Jesse Martin Walker (1839-1898), his wife Sarah Curtis Walker (1846-1923), and their daughters Laura Walker Newton (1866-1946), Elizabeth Walker Hinton (1868-1924), Julia Olive Walker Barnard (1869-1940), Georgia Walker Pickett (1874-1934), Martha Walker Greene (1876-1955), Minnie Alice Walker Noel (1879-1931), and Nellie Walker Washburn (1882-1957). Documents the Walker family's migration from North Carolina to Colorado in 1871 and subsequent life in several towns in Colorado, including Cuchara, Huerfano, San Miguel, Grand Mesa, Silver Cliff, Grand Junction, and Ophir. Newton describes her family's investments, including gold mining, farming, ranching, and herding cattle, as well as relations between white settlers and Ute Indians and the removal of Ute Indians by the United States government, circa 1871-1872. She also details the lives of her mother and sisters, including their duties on the farm, education at the University of Denver, careers in teaching and optometry, religious lives as Baptists, and marriages. Later chapters describe the later lives of the family, circa 1923-1931, including Newton's marriage to Charles Sumner Newton (1863-1937) and life in Santa Barbara and Berkeley, California. Includes circa 41 photographs of the Walker family.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts / Images
Added to Catalog
June 19, 2018
References
Laura Walker Newton, Memoirs of Seven Sisters. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Laura Walker Newton, Memoirs of Seven Sisters. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Photographs.
Occupation
Cowboys Colorado 19th century.
Cowgirls Colorado 19th century.
Dairy farmers Colorado 19th century.
Gold miners Colorado 19th century.
Optometrists Colorado 19th century.
Ranchers Colorado 19th century.
Teachers Colorado 19th century.
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