"This 'patchwork' of women's words and pictures captures the pioneer experience memorably and elegantly. Just as a quilt is made up of many small pieces, this book is based on a multitude of individual stories and a rich range of source material".--Susan Armitage. coeditor of "The Women's West". 175 illustrations.
"We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made," wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, was headed for Salt Lake City. Her cultured, ...
Enriched by over 200 vintage photos, "Frontier Children" is a visual and verbal montage erases the stereotypes and brings to life the infinite variety of the experience of growing up in the 19th-century American West.
Calling on 10 years of research, the authors have compiled letters, diaries, journals, photographs, business records, genealogies, interview excerpts, and archives to document the lives of women who settled the West.
Presents biographies of nine women active between 1880 and 1930 who made outstanding contributions in the fields of medicine, religion, politics, business, arts and letters, education, athletics, and social action.
Moving personal account of frontier women left behind in Minnesota when their husbands went west to prospect for gold in Colorado and Montana in the mid-1800s.
A collection of essays that look at early modern writers, reflecting the broad range of approaches and methodologies in the modern era. Topics covered include: contextualizing the self; female discursive strategies; religious discourses and gender; writing a female space; negotiating power and desire; female writing and the marketplace/publishing; ...
How is it possible for women, men, and children from different cultural and spiritual backgrounds to come together and struggle against common forms of oppression? How can we create relationships and make connections as teachers and practitioners of pastoral care and counseling while we acknowledge and find value in differences? Archie Smith Jr. ...
Edition: First English Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Vantage Press
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; very lightly rubbed w/ slight edge wear, else clean bright & tight-dj lightly rubbed, moderate edge wear, minor soiling back flap, small (3/8") closed tear top of back panel, minor chipping head of spine-in mylar cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Vantage Press
Date Published: 1964
Description: Near Fine in Very Good- jacket. White, clean, crisp and bright First Edition, First Printing (1st Edition/1st Printing) with dustjacket, name and date written neatly to first blank page (endpaper). Dustjacket remains unclipped with rub and tiny tears to tips/corners. RARE. A nice copy, now in mylar protective sleeve. All of our books are hand selected and are as described. Mylar protective sleeves are available. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Christoph Printing
Date Published: 1984
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 8 3/4" x 5 3/4", 16 pgs, booklet w/paper covers. Illustration by Bettye Beach, short ink message on half-title. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McQuiddy Nashville 1964
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good in Fair jacket. Signed by Author(s) First edition Hardbound Very good in fair dj dj edgeworn, small tears, taped, front flap detached, chipped; prev owners bookplate, ffep; signed by author. read more
Edition: First Edition, 2nd printing`
Binding: Hardcover
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very Good + in Very Good+++ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author DJ shows a little ruffling, now protected with new Brodart. Dark red cloth over boardswith no writing or marks on interior. Endpapers have maps. 391 pp. Appears unread. Clean, straight and tight. read more
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