How Long to Read Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters

How Long Does it Take to Read Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters?

It takes the average reader 15 hours and 47 minutes to read Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters by Susan Lee Ward

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

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Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters By: Susan Lee Ward “Katie Bowen was literate, observant, curious, compassionate, lucid, and philosophical. Her letters are informative, affectionate, and delightful to read. These letters constitute one of the finest pre-Civil War collections about military life.” Dr. Leo E. Oliva, Santa Fe Trail Historian Catherine “Katie” Bowen (nee Cary) was born and raised in Houlton, Maine, where her family ran a lumber and mercantile business. After a whirlwind courtship, Katie married a dashing young West Point graduate, Second Lieutenant Isaac Bowen, who left soon after the wedding for the Mexican War. When he returned safely from the war, Katie and Isaac embarked on the adventure of a lifetime: enjoying tea and discussing philosophy with Ralph Waldo Emerson; drinking a soldier’s cracker toddy and smoking cigars with General Zachary Taylor, Colonel Jefferson Davis, and Second Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant, one of Isaac’s West Point classmates; chatting fireside with Susan Shelby Magoffin, another well-known Santa Fe Trail traveler; sipping champagne at the White House with family friend, President Millard Fillmore; hearing crucial military intelligence from frontier scout, Kit Carson; and, being entertained with tall tales about Mississippi River life by steamboat Cub Pilot, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, later known as Mark Twain. The Bowen Love Letters reveal intimate details about young lives full of passion and adventure - lives that ended tragically in 1858 when Katie and Isaac were still in their early thirties.

How long is Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters?

Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters by Susan Lee Ward is 918 pages long, and a total of 236,844 words.

This makes it 310% the length of the average book. It also has 289% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 21 hours and 34 minutes to read Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters aloud.

What Reading Level is Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters?

Lifelines: The Bowen Love Letters is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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