Author: Dee Alexander BrownPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803250253
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Presents portraits of the outstanding women who helped settle the Western frontier
The Gentle Tamers
Author: Dee Alexander BrownPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803250253
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Presents portraits of the outstanding women who helped settle the Western frontier
The Gentle Tamers
Author: Dee BrownPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453274197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A fascinating history of women on America’s western frontier by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether it’s the lone hero on horseback or crowds of card players in a rough-and-tumble saloon. But the taming of the frontier involved plenty of women, too—and this book tells their stories. At first, female pioneers were indeed rare—when the town of Denver was founded in 1859, there were only five women among a population of almost a thousand. But the adventurers arrived, slowly but surely. There was Frances Grummond, a sheltered Southern girl who married a Yankee and traveled with him out west, only to lose him in a massacre. Esther Morris, a dignified middle-aged lady, held a tea party in South Pass City, Wyoming, that would play a role in the long, slow battle for women’s suffrage. Josephine Meeker, an Oberlin College graduate, was determined to educate the Colorado Indians—but was captured by the Ute. And young Virginia Reed, only thirteen, set out for California as part of a group that would become known as the Donner Party. With tales of notables such as Elizabeth Custer, Carry Nation, and Lola Montez, this social history touches upon many familiar topics—from the early Mormons to the gold rush to the dawn of the railroads—with a new perspective. This enlightening and entertaining book goes beyond characters like Calamity Jane to reveal the true diversity of the great western migration of the nineteenth century. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
The Gentle Tamers
Author: Dee BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The Gentle Tamers
Author: Dee Alexander BrownThe Gentle Tamers. Women of the Old Wild West. [With Plates.].
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Author: Dee Alexander BrownThe Gentle Tamers [book Club Kit]
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Author: Dee BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book clubs (Discussion groups)
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The Gentle Tamers
Author: Dee Alexander BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780553103168
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
True stories of the famous and infamous women who played significant roles in the settling of the American West.
Women and Gender in the American West
Author: Mary Ann IrwinPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826335999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship on gender and women's history in the West. The winning essays are collected here for the first time in one volume.
Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915
Author: Sandra L. MyresPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826306265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Contains letters, journals, and reminiscences showing the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.
The North American West in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Brenden W. RensinkPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623328X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier is what forged American identity. In the late twentieth century, “new western” historians dissected the mythologized western histories that Turner and others had long used to embody American triumph and progress. While Turner’s frontier is no more, the West continues to present America with challenging processes to wrestle, navigate, and overcome. The North American West in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Brenden W. Rensink, takes stories of the late twentieth-century “modern West” and carefully pulls them toward the present—explicitly tracing continuity with or unexpected divergence from trajectories established in the 1980s and 1990s. Considering a broad range of topics, including environment, Indigenous peoples, geography, migration, and politics, these essays straddle multiple modern frontiers, not least of which is the temporal frontier between our unsettled past and uncertain future. These forays into the twenty-first-century West will inspire more scholars to pull histories to the present and by doing so reinsert scholarly findings into contemporary public awareness.