| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 100.1

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American Grit: A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier

Edited by Emily Foster

(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Pp. x, 344. Illustrations, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. $45.00.)

Few published collections of letters capture the heart of an antebellum pioneer family, the essence of their daily struggles, and the building up of the Midwest more perceptively than American Grit: A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier, edited by Emily Foster. The volume, a title in the University Press of Kentucky's Ohio River Valley series, showcases the richly detailed letters that Anna Briggs Bentley wrote from Ohio to her much beloved kin in Maryland between 1826 and 1858. The letters offer insight on Ohio Quakerism, frontier home medicinal practices, and the roles of women's, family, and community labor in antebellum agricultural societies. They are also notable for their rare references to farming during the Midwest's canal-building era.

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