Glenda Riley
Auteur de Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915
A propos de l'auteur
Glenda Riley is the Alexander M. Bracken Professor Emeritus of History at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
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Séries
Œuvres de Glenda Riley
The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains (1988) 78 exemplaires
Chiefs and Generals: Nine Men Who Shaped the American West (2004) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
By Grit and Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the American West (Notable Westerners) (1997) 27 exemplaires
With Badges & Bullets: Lawmen & Outlaws in the Old West (Notable Westerners Series) (1999) — Directeur de publication — 22 exemplaires
Building and Breaking Families in the American West (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture) (1996) 10 exemplaires
Taking Land, Breaking Land: Women Colonizing the American West and Kenya, 1840-1940 (2003) 8 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures: The First Twenty Years (2006) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 25, Number 4 (Winter 1992) (1992) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Gates, Glenda
- Date de naissance
- 1938-09-06
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Professions
- historian
professor - Organisations
- Ball State University
Western History Association (president, 1997) - Prix et distinctions
- Alexander M. Bracken Professor of History (Ball State University)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 21
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 532
- Popularité
- #46,804
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 47
While many books about the western frontier focus on the notorious men who were leaders in the formative years, there were many women who independently broke ground and made their voices and leadership known.
The biographies are interesting and have helpful, detailed “Sources and Further Reading” at the end of each of them. Included are well-known women like Annie Oakley (who was actually an Eastern woman who promoted the ‘concept’ of what a Western woman was like) and now-obscure women like Gertrudis Barceló, the leading monte-bank dealer in the Mexican territory of New Mexico in the 1830s.
Although this is could be considered an introductory type of book for western history and women’s history buffs, with guidance to more detailed studies, I think anyone would find this an enjoyable read.
I was especially interested in Abigail Scott Duniway, a determined woman’s suffragist and after 40 years of campaigning, the first female voter in Oregon in 1914. I plan to use the listed sources to further my knowledge of this courageous woman. Even the profiled women whose convictions are in opposition to mine were helpful in forming an overall understanding of this country during the 1800s.
Recommended!
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