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An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.
Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0307803171
An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.
Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2004-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0805211764
More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the Westering experiences of American women are equally central to an accurate picture of what life was like on the frontier. Through the diaries, letters, and reminiscences of women who participated in this migration, Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey gives us primary source material on the lives of these women, who kept campfires burning with buffalo chips and dried weeds, gave birth to and cared for children along primitive and dangerous roads, drove teams of oxen, picked berries, milked cows, and cooked meals in the middle of a wilderness that was a far cry from the homes they had left back east. Still (and often under the disapproving eyes of their husbands) they found time to write brave letters home or to jot a few weary lines at night into the diaries that continue to enthrall us. In her new foreword, Professor Mary Clearman Blew explores the enduring fascination with this subject among both historians and the general public, and places Schlissel’s groundbreaking work into an intriguing historical and cultural context.
Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Here is an expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade. Documenting the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women, "these chronicles of women show an aspect of the westward saga seldom seen before and never in such depth. . . . Absorbing, informative, sobering reading".--The Wall Street Journal.
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ISBN : 9780780766679
Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803292956
Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn CollegeCUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western Women's Reader (with Catherine Lavender) and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West. Byrd Gibbens is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia campus, and the author of This Is a Strange Country: Letters of a Western Family 1880-1906.Elizabeth Hampsten is a professor of English at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and the author of Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains.
Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803272910
In 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diaries and letters of six pioneer women describe the rigors en route, trailside celebrations and tragedies, the scourge of cholera, and encounters with the Indians.
Author : M. Spongberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1349724688
This A-Z reference work provides the first comprehensive reference guide to the wide range of historical writing with which women have been involved, particularly since the Renaissance. The Companion covers biographical writing, travelogue and historical fictions, broadening the concept of history to include the forms of writing with which women have historically engaged. The focus is on women writing in English internationally, but historical and historiographical traditions from beyond the English-speaking world are also examined. Brief biographies of individual writers are included.
Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250239672
From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas' Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail AG Journal's RURAL THEMES BOOKS FOR WINTER READING | Hasty Book Lists' BEST BOOKS COMING OUT IN JANUARY “Exciting novel ... difficult to put down.” —Booklist "If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?" It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn't know they possessed. Maggie discovers she’s not the only one looking to leave dark secrets behind. And when her past catches up with her, it becomes clear a band of sisters will do whatever it takes to protect one of their own.
Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826310903
These essays analyze and interpret studies on women's roles in the American West.
Author : Joanna L. Stratton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476753598
From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “uncommonly interesting” and “a remarkable distillation of primary sources.” Never before has there been such a detailed record of women’s courage, such a living portrait of the women who civilized the American frontier. Here are their stories: wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders, and circuit riders. Their personal recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, cowboy shootouts, Indian raids, and blizzards on the plains vividly reveal the drama, danger and excitement of the pioneer experience. These were women of relentless determination, whose tenacity helped them to conquer loneliness and privation. Their work was the work of survival, it demanded as much from them as from their men—and at last that partnership has been recognized. “These voices are haunting” (The New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before.