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Women of the West

par Cathy Luchetti, Carol Olwell

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A myth-shattering look at the women who helped to settle the West, told through their own words and illustrated with 150 period photographs. Through these photos, plus diaries, memoirs, letters, and journals, Women of the West introduces 11 real frontier women whose words combine to re-create a place and time when resourcefulness and courage were demanded of everyone. This is American history, not as it was romanticized, but as it was lived. 150 period photographs.… (plus d'informations)
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Women of the West tells the stories of women who travelled across America in the 1800s to new lives in the West. This is a great book. I think what I like most about it is the breadth of experience that Luchetti has included - white women, black women, Indian women, European women, rich women, poor women, mothers, educators, business women, religious women. The sources used are mainly diaries, memoirs and letters which give vivid, personal accounts of the terrible hardships that many of these women experienced, the monotony of rural life, the strength they drew from their beliefs and the opportunitites that some of them were able to take.

The writings are accompanied by some wonderful photographs, not only of the writers themselves but also of the landscapes and communities of the West. ( )
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To those women of the West whose stories will never be told.
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[Preface] From my early years in Texas, I remember stories of the old Goodnight-Loving cattle trail which ran north, along the outskirts of town.
[Notes on the Photographs] My great-grandmother Zillah Player Riser was born shortly after her mother crossed the Platte River in 1851. Some family accounts even suggested it was "several minutes" after the crossing.
[Notes on the Editing] Each woman included in this book has a distinct literary style influenced by her education, profession, ethnic background, and her general outlook on life.
[Introduction] Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and--like the wiry grass--seem as difficult to weed out and discard.
[Minority Women] The hardships, customs, and expectations of the while immigrants to the West in the 1800s have been well documented. The women's individual stories were not well known, but they lived, in many cases, strong and dramatic lives, raised their children with courage and direction, and in general did the best they could with what was at hand. But in tracing the path of women throughout the West, it would be impossible to ignore the lives of the Indian women who first aid claim to the spirit if not the actual acreage of the West.
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A myth-shattering look at the women who helped to settle the West, told through their own words and illustrated with 150 period photographs. Through these photos, plus diaries, memoirs, letters, and journals, Women of the West introduces 11 real frontier women whose words combine to re-create a place and time when resourcefulness and courage were demanded of everyone. This is American history, not as it was romanticized, but as it was lived. 150 period photographs.

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