Bibliograph

Frontier women, "civilizing" the West? 1840-1880, Julie Roy Jeffrey

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Frontier women, "civilizing" the West? 1840-1880, Julie Roy Jeffrey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Frontier women

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

37509907

Responsibility statement

Julie Roy Jeffrey

Sub title

"civilizing" the West? 1840-1880

Summary

Frontier Women is the classic history of women on America's frontiers, now updated and thoroughly revised. It is an imaginative and graceful account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions of women to continental expansion. In this new edition, Julie Roy Jeffrey has tapped new sources and expanded her analysis to include the often overlooked perspectives of women of color. In this new edition of a classic work, Julie Roy Jeffrey maintains the essential core of her account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions women made to the development of the American frontier. Jeffrey has expanded her original analysis to include the often overlooked perspectives of Native American, Hispanic, Chinese, and African American women

Table Of Contents

"Glimpses of western life" -- "Ladies have the hardest time, that emigrate by land" -- "A maid of all traids" -- "Am beginning to feel quite civilized" -- "The rarest commodity ... are women" -- "If polygamy is the Lord's order, we must carry it out" -- "Will she not overstep the bounds of propriety if she ventures into the arena of action?"

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