Nothing Daunted Quotes

“[Harriet Tubman] also looked out for other African-Americans in town, opening the first home in the country for elderly and indigent blacks. When Dorothy and Ros were small, the elderly Tubman rode a bicycle up and down South Street, stopping to ask for food donations. If she had specific needs, she sat on the back porch and waited for the lady of the house, with whom she would chat and ask for bedding or clothing for her residents. One of Ros's nieces said, "Mother had coffee with Harriet and would always leave a ham or turkey for her for the holiday.”
― Dorothy Wickenden, Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

“A freshman had to wear a black turtleneck sweater, corduroy trousers, and a little black cap called a ‘dink’ on the back of his head,” he wrote in his autobiography, Confessions of a Maverick”
― Dorothy Wickenden, Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

“The Meeker Massacre, as newspapers across the country labeled it, gave Governor Pitkin an opportunity to make a special announcement to the press about the Ute threat: “My idea is that, unless removed by the government, they must necessarily be exterminated.” He pointed out “The advantages that would accrue from the throwing open of twelve million acres of land to miners and settlers. . . .” In August 1881 the U.S. Army force-marched virtually all of the Colorado Utes 350 miles to a reservation on a desolate stretch of land near Roosevelt, Utah.”
― Dorothy Wickenden, Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

“of her students to come up to”
― Dorothy Wickenden, Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West