Adeline and Julia : Growing Up in Michigan and on the Kansas Frontier - Diaries and Letters from 19th-century America

Sisters Adeline (1864-1934) and Julia Graham (1862-1900) grew up in Berrien Springs, Michigan in the 1880s and kept diaries as teenagers. Here they are, annotated to explain archaic or exotic terms and local references, along with a later diary Julia kept during the year she spent homesteading with three other young women on the Kansas frontier. On