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Life painted red : the true story of Corabelle Fellows and how her life on the Dakota frontier became a national scandal
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Life painted red : the true story of Corabelle Fellows and how her life on the Dakota frontier became a national scandal / Chuck Raasch.
ISBN
9781493074136
149307413X
9781493074143
Publication
Essex, Connecticut : TwoDot, [2023]
Physical Description
xvii, 247 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Summary
"Details Cora's experiences from her Washington, DC, exodus to her years living amongst the Sioux, and her scandalous, short-lived marriage to Sam Campbell"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
True story of Corabelle Fellows and how her life on the Dakota frontier became a national scandal
Other formats
Online version: Raasch, Chuck. Life painted red Essex, Connecticut : TwoDot, [2023]
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 29, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface : boundless, limitless
A blind woman wants us to see
The most penetrating cold
Restless heart, defiant spirit
Go West, young woman
A big, wide world
Mother, protector
A mysterious captor comes calling
Cut Meat Creek and rowdy cowboys
Women work
A good dog night
Wild horses and raging blizzards
A quiet courtship becomes a national sensation
A prairie-gumbo-splattered wedding day
Dime museums and Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
Lies and distortions that never end
A child, vilified and objectified
Pulled into politics
A three-pronged assault on the power order
A tragedy of Shakespearean proportions
Winyan is dead
It all falls apart
Storms all around
"No more to do with his white wife"
Samuel Campbell, prisoner 3222
A family forever apart
The Blue star fades
Missionary spirit to the end.
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