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Title: Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America by Linda Lawrence Hunt, Sue Armitage ISBN: 0-89301-262-9 Publisher: Univ of Idaho Pr Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Compelling story...not just for women
Comment: This compelling story gives a glimpse into America in transition at the end of the 19th century. It is a story of one woman's experience that will resonate with future generations... struggle, faith, loss, hope and the resilience of individuals. Interestingly, this story was completely silenced for 70 years. Linda Hunt offers a well researched initial telling of this tale that causes the reader to pause and consider how his own story will be remembered by future generations.
Rating: 5
Summary: This gem of book is a unique treat.....
Comment: I confess to a penchant for accounts of pioneer history and this amazing biography offers far more than the oft-published times, dates and places.
Bold Spirit-Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, is simply riveting. Helga's true story, brimming with struggle, loss, hope, peril and audacious moxie, portrays a complex woman pushing prevalent cultural boundaries, while holding loyally to her values surrounding family ties and religious conviction.
Born in Scandinavia, Helga emigrated to Minnesota as a child. Following her marriage at 16, she, Ole and their growing family eventually homestead south of Spokane, Washington. Within a short time, the depression of 1893 finds them desperate for work and for funds with which to pay their mortgage.
When an anonymous donor offers $10,000 to any woman who will walk across America under stringent constraints, Helga and her 18 year-old daughter Clara accept the dangerous challenge and strike out together for New York City. Defying the era's "suitable" behavior standards for women, and confronting myriad hazardous obstacles, Helga and Clara display a determination to save their home that results in a confusing combination of respect and condemnation from those who follow their journey. Their arrival in New York heralds both an ironic ending and another beginning to this fascinating story.
Utilizing accounts garnered from extensive research and personal interviews, Linda Hunt recounts this absorbing saga with the objective of preserving the truth of Helga's gifts, tragedies and legacy. The story, stilled for many years by members of Helga's family, might have been lost altogether. We are indebted to Professor Hunt for her gift of presenting this glimpse of a truly surprising Victorian woman. Historically intriguing, poignant, engrossing and beautifully illustrated with vintage photographs, Bold Spirit is absolutley recommended for individuals and Book Groups alike.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating Story
Comment: Linda Hunt weaves a fascinating story from the old newspaper accounts of the extreme challenges and dangers faced by Helga and Clara Estby as they walked across America in a bid to win the money that could save their family farm. Once I started reading, I could hardly put the book down. (I'm an opera singer, and I read this book during my waits between entrances in a run of performances for Mozart's Don Giovanni.)
As I read this book, I expected to learn more about the role and place for women in late nineteenth century American culture, and I expected to learn about the silencing of stories that happens within families. However, I was surprised to find the story so relevant to my own history. I gained a new insight for myself from Ms. Hunt's description of "breaking the central code of a culture"; that a story simply cannot be heard when the actions of the characters in the story go beyond or "break" what is accepted in the prevailing culture.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in a glimpse of what life was like for independent thinking women at the turn of the last century, and I also recommend it for anyone who cherishes family stories.
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Title: Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart ISBN: 0395911516 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier by Linda Peavy, Ursula Smith ISBN: 0806130547 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.05 |
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Title: Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 by Kenneth L. Holmes, Anne M. Butler ISBN: 0803272774 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Winter Walk: A Century-Old Survival Story from the Arctic by Loretta Outwater Cox ISBN: 0882405586 Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books Pub. Date: October, 2005 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven ISBN: 0786868635 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 12 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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