| So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier Contributor(s): Moynihan, Ruth Barnes (Editor), Armitage, Susan (Editor), Dichamp, Christiane Fischer (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0803282486 ISBN-13: 9780803282483 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1998 Annotation: 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 Northwest. Effie Wiltbank's short selection is a reminiscence of her grandmother's "receet" for washing clothes, a chore that epitomizes the practical skill, determination, and common sense required of so many Western women. Apolinaria Lorenzana offers a rare glimpse of the operations of the mission system while illuminating the perils of living with the acquisitive Americans. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 98015057 |
| Lexile Measure: 1180 |
| Series: Women in the West |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.04" W x 8.98" (1.11 lbs) 354 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Northwest. Effie Wiltbank's short selection is a reminiscence of her grandmother's "receet" for washing clothes, a chore that epitomizes the practical skill, determination, and common sense required of so many Western women. Apolinaria Lorenzana offers a rare glimpse of the operations of the mission system while illuminating the perils of living with the acquisitive Americans. Ruth B. Moynihan is an independent historian and writer. She is the editor of Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women. Susan Armitage is a professor of history at Washington State University and series editor for the University of Nebraska Press's Women in the West series. Christiane Fischer Dichamp, an independent scholar, is editor of Let Them Speak for Themselves: Women in the American West, 1849-1900. |