Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 34,34 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.
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File Size : 12,56 MB
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ISBN : 9780780766679
Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 1982
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More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed he continental US between 1840 and 1870. The women on the overland trail in covered wagons shaped a good part of USA.
Author : Lillian Schlissel
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826310903
These essays analyze and interpret studies on women's roles in the American West.
Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 12,86 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 : Joanna L. Stratton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 15,62 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.
Author : Marissa Moss
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780152021689
In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family's adventures traveling by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850.
Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
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This groundbreaking anthology compiles writing and photography from women who have called the American West home for the past three centuries. These women helped shaped the nation's history by leading protest movements and making their voices heard.
Author : Smithsonian Institution
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1588346749
An inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more. This book offers a unique, panoramic look at women's history in the United States through the lens of ordinary objects from, by, and for extraordinary women. Featuring more than 280 artifacts from 16 Smithsonian museums and archives, and more than 135 essays from 95 Smithsonian authors, this book tells women's history as only the Smithsonian can. Featured objects range from fine art to computer code, from First Ladies memorabilia to Black Lives Matter placards, and from Hopi pottery to a couch from the Oprah Winfrey show. There are familiar objects--such as the suffrage wagon used to advocate passage of the 19th Amendment and the Pussy Hat from the 2016 Women's March in DC--as well as lesser known pieces revealing untold stories. Portraits, photographs, paintings, political materials, signs, musical instruments, sports equipment, clothes, letters, ads, personal posessions, and other objects reveal the incredible stories of such amazing women as Phillis Wheatley, Julia Child, Sojourner Truth, Mary Cassatt, Madam C. J. Walker, Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Till Mobley, Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta, Phyllis Diller, Celia Cruz, Sandra Day O'Connor, Billie Jean King, Sylvia Rivera, and so many more. Together with illuminating text, these objects elevate the importance of American women in the home, workplace, government, and beyond. Published to commemorate the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, Smithsonian American Women is a deeply satisfying read and a must-have reflection on how generations of women have defined what it means to be recognized in both the nation and the world.
Author : Catherine Sager Pringle
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2010-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409979128
The Sager orphans (sometimes referred to as Sager children) were the children of Naomi and Henry Sager. In April 1844 Henry Sager and his family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey along the Oregon Trail. During their journey both Naomi and Henry Sager lost their lives and left their seven children orphaned. Later adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, missionaries in what is now Washington, the children were orphaned a second time, when both their new parents were killed during the Whitman massacre in November 1847. Catherine (1835-1910), the eldest of the Sager girls, married Clark Pringle, a Methodist minister and bore him 8 children. They lived in Spokane, Washington. About 1860, ten years after her arrival in Oregon, she wrote a first-hand account of their journey across the plains and their life with the Whitmans. This account today is regarded as one of the most authentic accounts of the American westward migration. She hoped to earn enough money to set up an orphanage in the memory of Narcissa Whitman. She never found a publisher. Catherine died on August 10, 1910, at the age of seventy-five.
