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Brave Hearted The Women Of The American West 18361880 Katie Hickman

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Publisher: Spiegel and Grau

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 5.72 MB

Pages: 400

Author: Katie Hickman

ISBN: 9781954118171, 1954118171

Language: English

Year: 2022

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Brave Hearted The Women Of The American West 18361880 Katie Hickman by Katie Hickman 9781954118171, 1954118171 instant download after payment.

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 & the myths, the laws & the 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, the Mississippi slave who fought for her freedom through the courts of California; Olive Oatman, adopted by the Mohave, famous for her facial tattoos.

This is the story of the women who participated in the greatest mass migration in American history, transforming their country in the process. This is American history not as it was romanticized but as it was lived.