I chose this article of a letter sent between Estella and addressed mainly to her sister and the rest of her family, as it gives quite a descriptive account of what life was like living out West in the early 20th Century. Times were still hard to get through in the middle of the U.S where there were scarce rainfall, as described in the letter that because of the shortage of rainfall some of their crops were failing.
There are many descriptions within her letter of the town shes living in with a church having been built there as it is mentioned, which makes it quite interesting in drawing a picture of what life was like in the mid West around a hundred years ago.
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Seems like an interesting choice (although I can't get the link to open). As we discussed today, material like this exposes the limitations of the 'myth and symbol' approach as practiced by Henry Nash Smith. In both gender and ethnicity (Stilgebouer and Roesch are hardly names you will find as authors of the literature discussed by HNS) these represent groups marginalised by the myth and symbol approach's emphasis on dominant culture.
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