Eva Emery Dye: Romance With the West

Browne (history, Tennessee State U.) describes how poet, history and romance writer, temperance and suffrage activist, popular speaker, and Chautauqua organizer Dye (1855-1947) devoted her life to researching and writing about the west. She narrates her childhood and education, and her transition in Oregon from wife and mother to writer and literary missionary. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR