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Important Things Of Life - Women, Work, And Family In Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929

by Dee Garceau

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 Examines women's work and family lives in Sweetwater County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, demonstrating how survival on the ranching and mining frontier heightened the value of group cooperation in ways that bred conservative attitudes toward gender.
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Give Me Eighty Men - Women And The Myth Of The Fetterman Fight

by Shannon D. Smith

15,45€ + 10% CARD

 ""With eighty men I could ride through the entire Sioux nation."" The story of the Fetterman Fight, near Fort Phil Kearney in present-day Wyoming in 1866, is based entirely on this infamous declaration attributed to Capt. William J. Fetterman. Give Me Eighty Men challenges standard interpretations of this American myth.
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Domesticating The West - The Re-Creation Of The Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class

by Brenda K. Jackson

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 In 1881 Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt said a final good-bye to Massachusetts and the eastern seaboard and set out in search not of land but of opportunities for social and political advancement. Facing severe limitations to their goals in the depressed and disheveled postwar East, the Tannatts went west to Walla Walla, Washington Territory, to pursue their dreams of influence and status. Domesticating the West examines the motivations of late-nineteenth-century middle-class migrants who moved west to build communities and establish themselves as leaders. The West offered new opportunities for solidly middle-class eastern families who endured hardship, uncertainty, and displacement during the Civil War, and who struggled to carve out meaningful social space in the war's aftermath. Brenda K. Jackson places the Tannatts at the center of this movement and demonstrates how gender, class, and place affected the new migrants' abilities to integrate into their new communities. She also shows how easterners redefined themselves as leaders of a new, moral western environment through volunteerism and political participation. While many studies of westward expansion focus exclusively on the earliest pioneers, Jackson adroitly shows how later arrivals shaped the social, economic, and cultural growth of the nation.
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Bright Epoch - Women And Coeducation In The American West

by Andrea G. Radke-Moss

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 Tells the story of female students' early mixed-gender encounters at four institutions: Iowa Agricultural College, the University of Nebraska, Oregon Agricultural College, and Utah State Agricultural College. This work illuminates the diversity of other courses of study available to female students, including the sciences, literature, and law.
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Life Of Elaine Goodale Eastman

by Theodore D. Sargent

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 Presents a biography of Elaine Goodale Eastman that draws on more than one hundred letters from her. This book offers the dynamics of her thirty-year marriage to Charles Charles Eastman and its ultimate demise, the importance of her own literary contributions during this period, and the challenges and successes of her life following her divorce.
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Gendering Radicalism - Women And Communism In Twentieth-Century California

by Beth Slutsky

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 Examines how American leftist radicalism was experienced through the lives of three women who led the California branches of the Communist Party from its founding in 1919 to 1992. Separately, each woman represents a generation of the membership and activism of the party. Collectively their histories represent the story of all women who have devoted their lives to radicalism in America.
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Blue Tattoo - The Life Of Olive Oatman

by Margot Mifflin

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 In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America.
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Black Print With A White Carnation - Mildred Brown And The Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989

by Amy Helene Forss

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 Examines the impact of the black press through the narrative of Brown's life and work.
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Flowers In The Snow - The Life Of Isobel Wylie Hutchison

by Gwyneth Hoyle

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 Paints a vivid portrait of a woman gloriously out of the step with the conventions of her time. Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982) explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American Aleutians.
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The Blue Tattoo - The Life Of Olive Oatman

by Margot Mifflin

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 In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America.
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Kill The Cowboy - A Battle Of Mythology In The New West

by Sharman Apt Russell

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Kentucky Cavaliers In Dixie - Reminiscences Of A Confederate Cavalryman

by George Dallas Mosgrove

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 George Dallas Mosgrove enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment as a private on September 10, 1862. In this book, he offers firsthand information about military actions at Blue Springs, Saltville, and elsewhere, and relates details of his participation in John Hunt Morgan's 'Last Kentucky Raid' and the skirmish where Morgan was killed.
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Moving Out - A Nebraska Woman'S Life

by Polly Spence

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 Tells the life story of Polly Spence (1914-1998). This book focuses on a young girl's struggle to form an independent identity amidst the pressures of small town life, puritan religious values, and sexist assumptions about a woman's place.
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The Pluralist Imagination From East To West In American Literature

by Julianne Newmark

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The Important Things Of Life - Women, Work, And Family In Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929

by Dee Garceau

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 Examines women's work and family lives in Sweetwater County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title presents portrait of the American West as a laboratory of gender role change, in which migration, relocation, and new settlement underscored the development of new social identities.
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When Montana And I Were Young - A Frontier Childhood

by Margaret Bell

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 Margaret Bell (1888-1982) was a rancher and horse breaker. This memoir tells the story of a frontier childhood on the high plains of Montana and Canada. It offers an account of a child's life in the early part of the twentieth century. It introduces us to a new villain in Western literature: the stepfather.
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The Enigma Woman - The Death Sentence Of Nellie May Madison

by Kathleen A. Cairns

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 What if such an unconventional woman - and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed unconventional - were to get away with murder? Shortly after her husband's bullet-riddled body was found in the couple's Burbank apartment, police issued an all-points bulletin for the "beautiful, dark-haired widow."
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A World Of Light

by Floyd Skloot

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 Tells the story of how the author reconstructed his shattered life.
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Between Philosemitism And Antisemitism - Defenses Of Jews And Judaism In Germany, 1871-1932

by Alan T. Levenson

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 Offers an assessment of the non-Jewish defense of Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness from the foundation of the German Reich in 1871 until the ascent of the Nazis in 1932, when befriending Jews became a crime. Alan T. Levenson reveals the dynamic process by which a generally despised minority attracts defenders and supporters.
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The Naked Mountaineer - Misadventures Of An Alpine Traveler

by Steve Sieberson

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 Recounts a series of solo journeys to some of the worldâ€™s most exotic peaks in places such as Switzerland, Japan, and Borneo. However, it is far from the typical heroic mountain-expedition book. Although Steve Sieberson did reach many summits, in most cases his travels were more memorable for what he encountered along the way than for the actual climbing.
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The Life Of Elaine Goodale Eastman

by Theodore D. Sargent

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 Presents a biography of Elaine Goodale Eastman that draws on more than one hundred letters from her. This book offers the dynamics of her thirty-year marriage to Charles Charles Eastman and its ultimate demise, the importance of her own literary contributions during this period, and the challenges and successes of her life following her divorce.
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Give Me Eighty Men - Women And The Myth Of The Fetterman Fight

by Shannon D. Smith

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 Challenges standard interpretations of the Fetterman Fight and shows the powerful influence of female writers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The Chosen Game - A Jewish Basketball History

by Charley Rosen

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Magellania

by Júlio Verne

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 Jules Verne penned Magellania in 1897, following the death of his brother and at a time when his own health was beginning to fail. Originally titled Land of Fire and At the End of the World, Magellania was intended to reflect Verne's deeply held religious and political beliefs as well as examine his own mortality.
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