Brave Hearted The Women Of The American West 18361880 Katie Hickman by Katie Hickman instant download after payment.

"Brave Hearted is not just history, it is an incredibly intense page-turning experience. To read what these women endured is to be transported into another universe of courage, loss, pain, & occasionally victory. This book is a triumph." – Amanda Foreman

"Absolutely compelling" ― Christina Lamb, Sunday Times

The dramatic, untold stories of the diverse array of women who helped transform the American West.

Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players & prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives & mothers traveling 2 & a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys, some of them so poor they walked the entire route; African-American women in search of freedom from slavery; Chinese sex-workers sold openly on the docks of San Francisco; Native American women brutally displaced by the unstoppable tide of white settlers - these were the women who settled the American West, whose stories until now have remained mostly untold.  As the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes, "Myth & misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, & --like the wiry grass-- seem as difficult to weed out & discard." But the true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is more gripping, heart-rending, & stirring than all the movies, novels, folk-legends, & ballads of popular imagination.    
Drawing on letters, diaries, & other extraordinary contemporary accounts, sifting through the legends & myths, the laws & treaties, Katie Hickman presents us with a cast of unforgettable women, all forced to draw on huge reserves of resilience & courage in the face of tumultuous change: the half Cree, Marguerite McLoughlin, the much-admired "First Lady" of Fort Vancouver"; the Presbyterian missionary Narcissa Whitman, who in 1837 became the 1st white woman to make the overland journey west across the Rocky Mountains; Biddy Mason...