A LIVING HISTORY BLOG.

18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA.

Saturday 4 April 2009

WOMEN FARMERS.

"very masculine in her appearance, and seldom wore a gown, but usually had on a petticoat with a man’s coat over it, with a rifle over her shoulder and a tomahawk and butcher knife in her belt."
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/faculty_archives/appalachian_women/frontier.htm

No comments: