Quotes on the editor of this blog

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

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