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Available
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Publication
Antelope Island Press (1982), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 240 pages
Description
A myth-shattering look at the women who helped to settle the West, told through their own words and illustrated with 150 period photographs. Through these photos, plus diaries, memoirs, letters, and journals, Women of the West introduces 11 real frontier women whose words combine to re-create a place and time when resourcefulness and courage were demanded of everyone. This is American history, not as it was romanticized, but as it was lived. 150 period photographs.
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Women of the West tells the stories of women who travelled across America in the 1800s to new lives in the West. This is a great book. I think what I like most about it is the breadth of experience that Luchetti has included - white women, black women, Indian women, European women, rich women, poor
The writings are accompanied by some wonderful photographs, not only of the writers themselves but also of the landscapes and communities of the West.
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women, mothers, educators, business women, religious women. The sources used are mainly diaries, memoirs and letters which give vivid, personal accounts of the terrible hardships that many of these women experienced, the monotony of rural life, the strength they drew from their beliefs and the opportunitites that some of them were able to take.The writings are accompanied by some wonderful photographs, not only of the writers themselves but also of the landscapes and communities of the West.
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Awards
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Winner — 1983)
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Physical description
240 p.; 10.4 inches
ISBN
0917946022 / 9780917946028
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