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Dust, Desolation, and a Prairie Widow’s Longing
A travelogue passage depicts a vast Kansas prairie frontier with cottonwood deadening into loneliness. Mrs. Burkholder endures dust, drought, and isolation as she longs for water, trees, and green hills, writing home about shrinking comforts and a bleak, windblown solitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Lorelei
Prairies
Burkholder
Fountain County
Illinois
Yellow Pine
Praire
Thomas Burkholder
Lizzie
Illiois
Tom
Taylor Bottom
Prairie Town