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Give Me Eighty Men
Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight
Häftad, 2010
211 kr
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“With eighty men I could ride through the entire Sioux nation.” The story of what has become popularly known as the Fetterman Fight, near Fort Phil Kearney in present-day Wyoming in 1866, is based entirely on this infamous declaration attributed to Capt. William J. Fetterman. Historical accounts …
Blue Tattoo
The Life of Olive Oatman
Inbunden, 2009
415 kr
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2019 Tucson Weekly “40 Essential Arizona Books” pick2014 One Book Yuma selection 2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses (ALA) selection2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist2009 Southwest Book of the YearIn 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward …
Give Me Eighty Men
Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight
Inbunden, 2008
474 kr
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“With eighty men I could ride through the entire Sioux nation.” The story of what has become popularly known as the Fetterman Fight, near Fort Phil Kearney in present-day Wyoming in 1866, is based entirely on this infamous declaration attributed to Capt. William J. Fetterman. Historical accounts …
Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman
Häftad, 2008
353 kr
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Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) followed her conscience and calling in 1885 when she traveled west and opened a school on the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Over the next six years she witnessed many of the monumental events …
Domesticating the West
The Re-creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class
Häftad, 2008
225 kr
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In 1881 Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt said a final good-bye to Massachusetts and the eastern seaboard and set out in search not of land but of opportunities for social and political advancement. Facing severe limitations to their goals in the depressed and disheveled postwar East, the Tannatts went …
Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950
Häftad, 2007
219 kr
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During a time when female reporters were almost always relegated to the society and women's pages of the newspapers, a few hundred notable women broke barriers and wrote their way onto the front pages of metropolitan newspapers. Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920–1950 takes a look at the lives and …
Enigma Woman
The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison
Häftad, 2009
203 kr
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"Crack shot." "Enigma woman." "Good with ponies and pistols." "A much-married woman." What if such an unconventional woman—and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed unconventional—were to get away with murder? Shortly after her husband's bullet-riddled body was found in …
Riding Pretty
Rodeo Royalty in the American West
Inbunden, 2006
356 kr
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When the town of Pendleton, Oregon, held its first large-scale rodeo, it introduced a new kind of rodeo queen-not a traveling cowgirl performer but a young, middle-class woman from its own town. Riding Pretty examines the history, evolution, and significance of the community-sponsored rodeo queen, …
Their Own Frontier
Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West
Av Shirley Anne Leckie, Nancy J. Parezo
Häftad, 2008
333 kr
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The writings of the American West have long dealt with masculine ideals. Well into the twentieth century, what little attention was afforded to women typically reflected prescribed or stereotyped roles, and the work of women scholars received less attention than that of men. And yet the early …
Blue Tattoo
The Life of Olive Oatman
Häftad, 2011
241 kr
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2019 Tucson Weekly “40 Essential Arizona Books” pick2014 One Book Yuma selection 2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses (ALA) selection2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist2009 Southwest Book of the YearIn 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward …
Bright Epoch
Women and Coeducation in the American West
Inbunden, 2008
589 kr
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With the passage of the Morrill Act in 1862, many states in the Midwest and the West chartered land-grant colleges following the Civil War. Because of both progressive ideologies and economic necessity, these institutions admitted women from their inception and were among the first public …
Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman
Inbunden, 2005
416 kr
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Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) followed her conscience and calling in 1885 when she traveled west and opened a school on the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Over the next six years she witnessed many of the monumental events …
Important Things of Life
Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929
Av Dee Garceau
Häftad, 2013
225 kr
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Sweetwater County lies in southwestern Wyoming, and has stood as a significant symbolic geography for the "new Western Woman’s" history. As the county in which Elinore Pruitt Stewart (Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Nebraska 1990) said she proved up her homestead in 1913, it is a fitting locale for …
Black Print with a White Carnation
Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938–1989
Häftad, 2014
446 kr
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Mildred Dee Brown (1905–89) was the cofounder of Nebraska's Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American woman in the United States. Known for her trademark white carnation corsage, Brown was the matriarch of Omaha's Near North Side—a historically black part of …
Gendering Radicalism
Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California
Av Beth Slutsky
Inbunden, 2015
515 kr
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In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a …
Cowboy Girl
The Life of Caroline Lockhart
Av John Clayton
Häftad, 2007
278 kr
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In 1901, Philadelphia's celebrity female journalist stepped off a train in Blackfoot, Montana, and into a world of living legends. The miners and frontiersmen, Indians and trappers that Caroline Lockhart met there inspired this beautiful, single, strong-willed woman to live a life she had only …
Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West
Av Joanne Wilke
Häftad, 2007
221 kr
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In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand unpaved miles on an extended car-camping trip through six national parks, "without a man or a gun along." It was the era of the flapper, but this book tells the story …
When Montana and I Were Young
A Frontier Childhood
Av Margaret Bell, Mary Clearman Blew
Häftad, 2003
211 kr
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Lost for almost half a century and never before published, When Montana and I Were Young is a remarkable primary account of a child's life in the early part of the twentieth century. Margaret Bell (1888–1982) was a rancher and horse breaker whose memoir tells the story of a frontier childhood on …
Emily
The Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman
Av Emily French, Janet Lecompte
Häftad, 1987
263 kr
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"Oh how I do wish I could have a little help in maintaining my home. I shall dread the cold winter so much. I don't have very good success getting employment," wrote Emily French in her diary in 1890. Emily was recently divorced but received no alimony or child support. She worked as a laundress, …
Adventures of the Woman Homesteader
The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Häftad, 1993
233 kr
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Generations of readers have delighted in Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1914) and Letters on an Elk Hunt (1915), among the most engaging accounts of life in the American West. Stewart related her adventures on an isolated Wyoming homestead with such vividness, gusto, and …
Flowers in the Snow
The Life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison
Häftad, 2005
233 kr
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Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889–1982) explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American Aleutians. To achieve her goals, she traveled by any means available, from rowboats in Greenland to trading …
Engendered Encounters
Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879-1934
Häftad, 1999
303 kr
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In this interdisciplinary study of gender, cross-cultural encounters, and federal Indian policy, Margaret D. Jacobs explores the changing relationship between Anglo-American women and Pueblo Indians before and after the turn of the century. During the late nineteenth century, the Pueblos were often …
Gendering Radicalism
Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California
Av Beth Slutsky
E-bok, 2015
461 kr
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In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a …
Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier
The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson
Häftad, 1989
218 kr
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The modern woman who tries to juggle private and public roles with equilibrium will discover a spiritual ancestor in Alice Kirk Grierson. The colonel's lady spent most of her life at army outposts on the nineteenth-century western frontier, where she faced the problems of raising a large family …
Stranger in Her Native Land
Alice Fletcher and the American Indians
Av Joan T. Mark
Häftad, 1989
388 kr
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Called "Her Majesty" because of her resemblance to Queen Victoria and known as "the measuring woman" among the Indians whose land allotments she administered, Alice Fletcher (1838–1923) commanded respect from both friend and foe. She was the foremost woman anthropologist in the United States in the …
So Much to Be Done
Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier
Av Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Susan Armitage m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
254 kr
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In this new and enlarged edition the editors have built on an already strong collection with four new accounts. Colorado pioneer Augusta Tabor gives a sense of the heady days as Leadville became a major mining center. Abigail Duniway describes the challenges of life for women in the Pacific …
Women and Nature
Saving the "Wild" West
Av Glenda Riley
Häftad, 1999
283 kr
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Long before Rachel Carson's fight against pesticides placed female environmental activists in the national spotlight, women were involved in American environmentalism. In Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild" West, Glenda Riley calls for a reappraisal of the roots of the American conservation …
Enigma Woman
The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison
Inbunden, 2007
335 kr
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"Crack shot." "Enigma woman." "Good with ponies and pistols." "A much-married woman." What if such an unconventional woman—and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed unconventional—were to get away with murder? Shortly after her husband's bullet-riddled body was found in …
