Land of the Burnt Thigh by Edith Eudora Kohl read by Matthew McNaughton Part 1/2 | Full Audio Book

Land of the Burnt Thigh by Edith Eudora Kohl (1884 - 1959)
Genre(s): Memoirs

Read by: Matthew McNaughton in English
Cover design by Annise.

Parts:
Part 2    • Land of the Burnt Thigh by Edith Eudora Ko...  

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - A Word of Explanation
00:02:13 - 01 - A Shack on the Prairie
00:28:05 - 02 - Down to Grass Roots
00:59:25 - 03 - Any Fool Can Set Type
01:15:00 - 04 - The Biggest Lottery in History
01:44:18 - 05 - No Place for Clinging Vines
02:16:13 - 06 - Utopia
02:41:53 - 07 - Building Empires Overnight
03:14:52 - 08 - Easy as Falling Off a Log
03:52:46 - 09 - The Opening of the Rosebud
04:27:16 - 10 - The Harvest
05:02:17 - 11 - The Big Blizzard
05:25:30 - 12 - A New America
05:49:31 - 13 - The Thirsty Land
06:31:17 - 14 - The Land of the Burnt Thigh
06:54:53 - 15 - Up in Smoke

'It will be all right,' Ida Mary told her father cheerfully. 'It is only for eight months. Nothing can happen in eight months.'

Edith and Ida Mary Ammons, two slightly-built young women raised on exciting stories of a glamorous Wild West, bade their father good-bye in St. Louis and boarded a steamboat up the Missouri river on their way to South Dakota, to make something of themselves on a prairie homestead.

They set up near the 'Land of the Burnt Thigh' — the Lower Brulé Indian Reservation. It was 1907, and though the days of the covered wagon had passed, conditions on the prairie were harsh, and they were dangerously unprepared. Even experienced homesteaders with better equipment, greater physical strength, and more money struggled against the long summer droughts and deadly cold winters. 'My ma says we'll starve and freeze yet', said a six year-old boy from a neighboring farm.

With the support of a tight-knit and welcoming community, Edith and Ida Mary dug deep into resources of ingenuity and endurance they didn't know they had, embarked on ventures they never would have imagined, and emerged as icons of independent female resilience and accomplishment.

In her memoir 'Land of the Burnt Thigh', Edith Kohl (neé Ammons) wove a vivid tale of her and her sister's struggles together with those of her neighbors, placing it in the historical context of the massive migration into the West during the decade leading up to America's entry into the First World War. (Summary by Matthew McNaughton)

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