The Resource Women in waiting in the westward movement : life on the home frontier, by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith ; foreword by John Mack Faragher
Women in waiting in the westward movement : life on the home frontier, by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith ; foreword by John Mack Faragher
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- Summary
- During the last half of the nineteenth century, thousands of men went west in search of gold, land, or adventure - leaving their wives to handle family, farm, and business affairs on their own. The experiences of these westering men have long been a part of the lore of the American frontier, but the stories of their wives have rarely been told. Ten years of research into public and private documents - including letters of couples separated during the westward movement - has enabled Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith to tell the forgotten stories of "women in waiting." Though these wives were left more or less in limbo by the departure of their adventuring husbands, they were hardly women in waiting in any other sense. Children had to be fed, clothed, housed, and educated; farms and businesses had to be managed; creditors had to be paid or pacified - and, in some cases, hard-earned butter-and-egg money had to be sent west in response to letters from broke and disillusioned husbands. This raises some unsettling questions: How does the idea of an "allowance" from home square with our long-standing image of the frontiersman as rugged individualist? To what extent was the westward movement supported by the paid and unpaid labor of women back east? And how do we measure the heroics of husbands out west against the heroics of wives back home? Based on the experiences of more than fifty women - from Abiah Hiller, whose business sense equaled or excelled her husband's, to Emma Christie, who knew virtually nothing about the matters she was called upon to manage - Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement offers a rare glimpse into life on the home frontier and provides new insights into fairly common, though poorly documented, aspect of the history of the settling of the American West
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 381 pages
- Contents
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- Families in flux
- Abiah Warren Hiller
- Almira Fay Stearns
- Sarah Burgert Yesler
- Harriet Burr Godfrey
- Emma Stratton Christie
- Augusta Perham Shipman
- Isbn
- 9780806126166
- Label
- Women in waiting in the westward movement : life on the home frontier
- Title
- Women in waiting in the westward movement
- Title remainder
- life on the home frontier
- Statement of responsibility
- by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith ; foreword by John Mack Faragher
- Subject
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- Familienleben
- Frau
- Frau
- Frontier
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
- Gehuwde vrouwen
- History
- Kolonisten
- Pioneers' spouses
- Pioneers' spouses -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Siedlung
- Territorial expansion
- USA -- Weststaaten
- United States
- United States -- Migration, Internal
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- United States, West
- United States, West -- Biography
- United States, West -- History
- West (U.S.) -- History
- Women
- Women -- United States -- Biography
- Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- United States -- History | 19th century
- Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- 1800-1899
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- During the last half of the nineteenth century, thousands of men went west in search of gold, land, or adventure - leaving their wives to handle family, farm, and business affairs on their own. The experiences of these westering men have long been a part of the lore of the American frontier, but the stories of their wives have rarely been told. Ten years of research into public and private documents - including letters of couples separated during the westward movement - has enabled Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith to tell the forgotten stories of "women in waiting." Though these wives were left more or less in limbo by the departure of their adventuring husbands, they were hardly women in waiting in any other sense. Children had to be fed, clothed, housed, and educated; farms and businesses had to be managed; creditors had to be paid or pacified - and, in some cases, hard-earned butter-and-egg money had to be sent west in response to letters from broke and disillusioned husbands. This raises some unsettling questions: How does the idea of an "allowance" from home square with our long-standing image of the frontiersman as rugged individualist? To what extent was the westward movement supported by the paid and unpaid labor of women back east? And how do we measure the heroics of husbands out west against the heroics of wives back home? Based on the experiences of more than fifty women - from Abiah Hiller, whose business sense equaled or excelled her husband's, to Emma Christie, who knew virtually nothing about the matters she was called upon to manage - Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement offers a rare glimpse into life on the home frontier and provides new insights into fairly common, though poorly documented, aspect of the history of the settling of the American West
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Peavy, Linda S
- Dewey number
- 973.8/082
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F596
- LC item number
- .P43 1994
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1934-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Smith, Ursula
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Pioneers' spouses
- Women
- Frontier and pioneer life
- West (U.S.)
- United States
- West (U.S.)
- United States
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Pioneers' spouses
- Territorial expansion
- Women
- United States
- United States, West
- Women pioneers
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Women
- Women
- United States, West
- United States, West
- United States
- Gehuwde vrouwen
- Kolonisten
- Frontier
- Familienleben
- Frau
- Siedlung
- USA
- Frau
- Label
- Women in waiting in the westward movement : life on the home frontier, by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith ; foreword by John Mack Faragher
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-363) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Families in flux -- Abiah Warren Hiller -- Almira Fay Stearns -- Sarah Burgert Yesler -- Harriet Burr Godfrey -- Emma Stratton Christie -- Augusta Perham Shipman
- Control code
- ocm29259366
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 381 pages
- Isbn
- 9780806126166
- Lccn
- 93038832
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o29259366
- (OCoLC)29259366
- Label
- Women in waiting in the westward movement : life on the home frontier, by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith ; foreword by John Mack Faragher
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-363) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Families in flux -- Abiah Warren Hiller -- Almira Fay Stearns -- Sarah Burgert Yesler -- Harriet Burr Godfrey -- Emma Stratton Christie -- Augusta Perham Shipman
- Control code
- ocm29259366
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 381 pages
- Isbn
- 9780806126166
- Lccn
- 93038832
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o29259366
- (OCoLC)29259366
Subject
- Familienleben
- Frau
- Frau
- Frontier
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
- Gehuwde vrouwen
- History
- Kolonisten
- Pioneers' spouses
- Pioneers' spouses -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Siedlung
- Territorial expansion
- USA -- Weststaaten
- United States
- United States -- Migration, Internal
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- United States, West
- United States, West -- Biography
- United States, West -- History
- West (U.S.) -- History
- Women
- Women -- United States -- Biography
- Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Women -- United States -- History | 19th century
- Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- 1800-1899
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