Lydia Spencer Lane: 2 books
by Lydia Spencer Lane
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1987
Lydia Spencer Lane's account of her life as a young army bride on the early southwestern frontier is both invaluable history and delightful commentary. As an officer's wife, Lane left her home in Pennsylvania in 1854 to accompany her new husband to his first post in the West--the encampment at Fort...
by Lydia Spencer Lane
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
It is remarkable to us today that Lydia Lane wrote of the "old army" in 1893. She had married a soldier in 1854 and headed out to his post in the wilds of Texas. This is their story as pioneers, her husband attached to the U.S. Mounted Rifles. Of privations she has much to write but she also notes:...