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Woman of the river Georgie White Clark, white-water pioneer /
Published 1997An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Women in the American West
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Finding "her story" in the American West -- Visible in everything, but invisible to history : Native American women in the North American West -- Women of the Southern borderlands, 1600-1846 -- Gender and manifest destiny, 1830-1870 -- Polygamy, prostitution, and women in Mormon and mining settlements, 1840-1890 -- The "new woman," mobility, and western space, 1877-1920 -- War, depression, and the creation of the West, 1914-1940 -- The gendered wartime and postwar West, 1941-1980 -- Late trends and new directions.…”
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Making home work domesticity and Native American assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Squaring the circle -- Prairie heirs and heiresses : Native American history and the future of the West in Caroline Soule's The pet of the settlement -- The house divided : class and race in the married woman's home -- Object lessons : domesticity on display in Native American assimilation -- The cook, the photographer, and her majesty, the allotting agent : unsettling domesticity in E. …”
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Faithful transgressions in the American West six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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Women and gender in the American West
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Brooks -- No place for a woman : engendering western Canadian settlement / Catherine A. …”
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