Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood attended grade school and Smith College together, spent nine months on a grand tour of Europe in 1910, and then, bored with society luncheons and chaperoned balls and not yet ready for marriage, they went off to teach the children of homesteaders in a remote schoolhouse on the Western Slope of Colorado. They traveled on the new railroad over the Continental Divide and by wagon to Elkhead, a tiny settlement far from the nearest town. Their students came to school from miles away in tattered clothes and shoes tied together with string.

Dorothy Woodruff was the grandmother of New Yorker executive editor Dorothy Wickenden. Nearly one hundred years later, Wickenden found the buoyant, detailed, colorful letters the two women wrote to their families. Through them, she has chronicled their trials in the classroom, the cowboys and pioneering women they met, and the violent kidnapping of a close friend. Central to their narrative is Ferry Carpenter, the witty, idealistic, and occasionally outrageous young lawyer and cattle rancher who hired them, in part because he thought they would make attractive and cultivated brides. None of them imagined the transforming effect the year would have—on the children, the families, and the teachers.

Wickenden set out on her own journey to discover what two intrepid Eastern women found when they went West, and what America was like at that uncertain moment, with the country poised for the First World War, but going through its own period of self-discovery.

Drawing upon the letters, interviews with descendants, research about these vanished communities, and trips to the region, Wickenden creates a compelling, original saga about the two intrepid young women and the “settling up” of the West.

Up and up they followed the trail…. At the top they halted to catch their breath, and Isobel gazed longingly across a sea of cloud-draped mountain peaks and shadowy canyons. Through one of those dark gorges flowed the Salweek River, and by its side lived the Lisu people.

In 1922 Isobel Miller was a senior at the University of British Columbia--beautiful, talented, popular--and so miserable that she wanted to die. In her despair she began a search that was to last a lifetime: the search to know God.

Her investigation led to the Bible and to Jesus Christ, and one day God gave her the desire to share what she had learned with the Lisu tribe in southwest China. Ten years passed before Isobel and her husband were finally sent to the Lisu's mountain wilderness. She grew to love the people dearly, and in her adventurous life she experienced the challenges of pioneer living, the perils of war, and the joys of proving the faithfulness of God.

Nothing Daunted: The Story of Isobel Kuhn by Gloria Repp is a biography of Isobel Kuhn, a pioneer Christian missionary to China. This biography for teens begins in British Columbia where young Isobel Miller is struggling to find either satisfaction in life or a way out of life. Eventually her search led her to a personal and soul-satisfying faith in Jesus Christ. After Isobel married, she and her husband, John, traveled deep into the southern mountains of China to the Lisu tribe. The Kuhns loved the Lisu people, and when war threatened, they had to trust God for the safety of the Lisu tribe and the preservation of their ministry.

Nothing Daunted: The Story of Isobel Kuhn by Gloria Repp is a biography of Isobel Kuhn, a pioneer Christian missionary to China. This biography for teens begins in British Columbia where young Isobel Miller is struggling to find either satisfaction in life or a way out of life. Eventually her search led her to a personal and soul-satisfying faith in Jesus Christ. After Isobel married, she and her husband, John, traveled deep into the southern mountains of China to the Lisu tribe. The Kuhns loved the Lisu people, and when war threatened, they had to trust God for the safety of the Lisu tribe and the preservation of their ministry.

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Digitally Daunted will help you:
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Citation Details
Title: Bimini Fling: seduced by Bimini's beauty but daunted by the 55-mile crossing from Florida? No problem ... join a convoy.(TBM DESTINATION)
Author: Dan Armitage
Publication: Trailer Boats (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Ehlert Publishing Group
Volume: 35 Issue: 6 Page: 54(6)

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