December 8, 1909 / Fort Pierre, South Dakota
To: Mrs. M. M. Corey
"You
folks think you know something about cold weather but you dont. I had got used
to having my hair, eyebrows and eyewinkers covered with frost and ice till I
looked like Santa Clause when I got to school but Sun. night beat that all
hollow. I went to bed with the covers over my head and just a little air hole
over my right eye and when I woke up in the night I found when I put up my hand
to turn down the covers that my hair and the blanket were covered with hoar
frost. . . ."
Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919, edited by Philip L. Gerber
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