Download e-book for iPad: Twenty Miles From A Match: Homesteading In Western Nevada by Sarah E. Olds

By Sarah E. Olds

ISBN-10: 0874170524

ISBN-13: 9780874170528

Twenty Miles From a Match, initially released in 1978, is the autobiography of an indomitable lady and her family’s two decades of adventures and misadventures in a barren region wasteland. In 1908, a venturesome girl named Sarah Olds packed up her brood and went homesteading within the deserts north of Reno, west of Sutcliffe on Pyramid Lake. Her ill husband acknowledged, welcoming her to their new domestic, "There, outdated girl. There’s your place, and it’s rattling close to within the middle of Egypt." Olds tells of the hardships, frustrations, poverty, and different tribulations her kin suffered from presently after the flip of the century until eventually good into the good melancholy. via all of it, despite the fact that, runs a thread of humor, cheerfulness, and the facility to snort at adversity. The foreword is by way of her daughter, Leslie Olds Zurfluh, the fourth of Sarah and A. J. Olds's six children.

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