So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (Women in the West)

Moynihan, Ruth Barnes ; Christiane Fischer Dichamp; Susan H. Armitage (eds.)

ISBN 10: 080328165X / ISBN 13: 9780803281653

Edité par University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1990

A propos de cet article

First PB edition, third printing. Soft cover large 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall in illustrated wraps. As New and unread. Account of women settlers on the mining and ranching frontier of the Old West. xxii, 325pp inc. Selected Bibliography; illustrated in b/w photos. 326 p.

N° de réf. du vendeur 025471

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier (Women in the West)
• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London
• Date de parution: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 080328165X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780803281653
• Reliure: Trade Paperback
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: Wraps
• Type de livre: Book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Western Americana
  • Non-Fiction

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Synopsis

The genuine creative achievements of nineteenth-century western women have often been obscured by sentimental tributes to their devotion and diligence, while men are praised as pathfinders, entrepreneurs, and community builders. But the nineteen narratives in So Much to Be Done by women of diverse status and background reveal women's involvement in every aspect of settlement. Their part in making hard decisions, producing essential income, and developing new communities was as important as their flexibility, humor, and sense of adventure. This collection describes the experiences of pioneer women responding in individual ways to the challenge of frontier hardships.

The letters, diaries, and memoirs presented here offer glimpses of women's courage, physical strength, and independence that were the equal of any man's, even as they also reveal the failures, weaknesses, and tragedies that beset both sexes during the complex settlement process. Women describe their multiple daily tasks, the ingenuity by which they asserted themselves or circumvented patriarchal authority, the networks of relatives and friends who made the survival of both men and women possible. Such information is seldom found in men's narratives. Women's words provide rich veins of new material for social historians.

À propos de l'auteur

Ruth B. Moynihan, a member of the Connecticut Center for Independent Historians who also teaches at the University of Connecticut, is the author of Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway (1983) and other works. Susan Armitage, director of the American Studies Program and a professor of history at Washington State University, is coeditor, with Elizabeth Jameson, of The Women's West (1987) and the author of other publications. Christiane Fischer Dichamp, formerly a professor of American Studies at the University of Nancy, edited Let Them Speak for Themselves: Women in the American West, 1849–1900 (1977).