An Army Doctor’s Wife on the Frontier: The Letters of Emily McCorkle FitzGerald from Alaska and the Far West, 1874-78

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Emily FitzGerald used to be probably the most first white women to reside in Alaska, not up to a decade after the U.S. purchased it from Russia. In 1874 she accompanied her husband to Sitka, where he used to be surgeon at an army post. These letters to her mother in Philadelphia describe the pains of raising children and making a home at the frontier, the social lifetime of an army wife, and the long waits for steamers to bring mail and supplies. After the FitzGeralds were transferred to Fort Lapwai in present-day Idahoin 1876, Emily witnessed the Nez Perce’ War. Her letters right through this era reflect the fear and dread she shared with other families at an isolated army post under siege. She used to be a true pioneer woman.

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