Author: WILLIAM W. FOWLERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
WOMAN ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER
Author: WILLIAM W. FOWLERWomen of the American Frontier
Author: Stuart A. KallenPublisher: Lucent Books
ISBN: 9781590184714
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Women filled many roles during the settling of the American West. Women of the American Frontier is a multi-cultural look at those who were gold miners, army wives, trail riders, outlaws, political reformers, frontier teachers, and more.
Women of the Frontier
Author: Brandon Marie MillerPublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 161374000X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Using journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam Colt, entrepreneur Clara Brown, army wife Frances Grummond, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, naturalist Martha Maxwell, missionary Narcissa Whitman, and political activist Mary Lease are introduced to readers through their harrowing stories of journeying across the plains and mountains to unknown land. Recounting the impact pioneers had on those who were already living in the region as well as how they adapted to their new lives and the rugged, often dangerous landscape, this exploration also offers resources for further study and reveals how these influential women tamed the Wild West.
Woman on the American Frontier
Author: William Worthington FowlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Frontier Women
Author: Julie JeffreyPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 080901601X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The classic history of women on America's frontiers, now updated and thoroughly revised. FRONTIER WOMEN is an imaginative and graceful account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions of women to the development of the American frontier. Author Julie Roy Jeffrey has expanded her original analysis to include the perspectives of African American and Native American women.
Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail
Author: Jeanne E. AbramsPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814707203
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The image of the West looms large in the American imagination. Yet the history of American Jewry and particularly of American Jewish women—has been heavily weighted toward the East. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail rectifies this omission as the first full book to trace the history and contributions of Jewish women in the American West. In many ways, the Jewish experience in the West was distinct. Given the still-forming social landscape, beginning with the 1848 Gold Rush, Jews were able to integrate more fully into local communities than they had in the East. Jewish women in the West took advantage of the unsettled nature of the region to “open new doors” for themselves in the public sphere in ways often not yet possible elsewhere in the country. Women were crucial to the survival of early communities, and made distinct contributions not only in shaping Jewish communal life but outside the Jewish community as well. Western Jewish women's level of involvement at the vanguard of social welfare and progressive reform, commerce, politics, and higher education and the professions is striking given their relatively small numbers. This engaging work—full of stories from the memoirs and records of Jewish pioneer women—illuminates the pivotal role these women played in settling America's Western frontier.
Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915
Author: Glenda RileyPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826307804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The first account of how and why pioneer women altered their self-images and their views of American Indians.
Pioneer Women
Author: Linda S. PeavyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806130545
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Describes the lives of women of various backgrounds as they traveled west, established homes, worked inside and outside the home, and helped to develop settled society
Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier
Author: Cynthia Culver PrescottPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816549451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their claims. For Mary Ellen Todd, who found a “secret joy in having the power to set things moving,” this meant trading in the ox whip for the more feminine butter churn. In Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, Cynthia Culver Prescott expertly explores the shifting gender roles and ideologies that countless Anglo-American settlers struggled with in Oregon’s Willamette Valley between 1845 and 1900. Drawing on traditional social history sources as well as divorce records, married women’s property records, period photographs, and material culture, Prescott reveals that Oregon settlers pursued a moving target of middle-class identity in the second half of the nineteenth century. Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers’ children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation’s emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption. This absorbing volume reveals the shifting boundaries of traditional women’s spheres, the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, and the second generation’s struggle to balance their parents’ ideology with a changing national sense of class consciousness.
Woman on the American Frontier
Author: William W. FowlerPublisher: Corner House Publications
ISBN: 9780879280741
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description