A frontier family in Minnesota : letters of Theodore and Sophie Bost, 1851-1920 /

Theodore Bost was born in 1834 in Carouges on the outskirts of Geneva and immigrated to New York in 1851, moving later to Minnesota. He married Sophie Bonjour in St. Paul in June 1858 after a two and one- half year courtship by correspondence. A sturdy pioneer family, the Bosts remained in Minnesota...

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Main Author: Bost, Théodore, 1834-1920.
Contributors: Bost, Sophie, 1835-1922., Bowen, Ralph H. 1919-2006.
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1981.
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245 1 2 |a A frontier family in Minnesota :  |b letters of Theodore and Sophie Bost, 1851-1920 /  |c edited and translated by Ralph H. Bowen. 
260 |a Minneapolis :  |b University of Minnesota Press,  |c ©1981. 
300 |a xxv, 391 pages ;  |c 24 cm 
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520 |a Theodore Bost was born in 1834 in Carouges on the outskirts of Geneva and immigrated to New York in 1851, moving later to Minnesota. He married Sophie Bonjour in St. Paul in June 1858 after a two and one- half year courtship by correspondence. A sturdy pioneer family, the Bosts remained in Minnesota until 1887, when they moved to California. Other members of the family lived in Washington. 
505 0 |a Off to America -- A wanderer in the New World -- Westward to Minnesota -- Alone on the claim -- Waiting for Sophie -- The honeymoon -- The first child -- The Civil War begins -- The lime quarry -- The Indian uprising -- The new house -- "And the war goes on" -- The death of Alice -- Trees and bees -- Alphonse Bonjour -- Theodore in Europe -- Another Alice -- Storekeeper in Excelsior -- Back to the land -- The pioneers in old age -- Echoes of war (1914-1918) -- "All flesh is grass." 
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