Review of 'The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I read this years ago. and will try to find my review...
452 pages
English language
Published Nov. 24, 1999 by Fawcett Books.
5 stars
(1 review)
Plain, independent Lidie Harkness, impatient with the restrictions placed on women in mid-nineteenth century Illinois, jumps at the chance to marry New England abolitionist Thomas Newton and travel with him to the Kansas Territory where they embark on a dangerous quest to stop the spread of slavery.
Subjects
- Fiction
- Women pioneers
- Widows
- Abolitionists
- History
Places
- United States
- Missouri