Professor Myres gives frontier women a voice they never had. She
uses extensive new material by and about women--letters, journals,
and reminiscences from over 400 collections-- to study the impact
of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.
She offers a major reinterpretation of the experience of pioneer
women, including that of Indian, Mexican, French, black, and
Anglo-American women. The account recreates in detail the frontier
experience of all these women, beginning with their physical and
intellectual responses to the trek West, and concluding with their
struggle for political suffrage and economic opportunity.
Women moved from civilization to the frontier encumbered by more
than baggage. They also had to overcome literary and social
stereotypes. We learn their views on wilderness, Indians, race, and
religion as well as how they reacted to the daily challenges of
keeping house, raising a family, and gaining a measure of
equality.
"A strikingly original, highly readable, and informative history
that will be used by scholars and lay readers alike."--Howard
Lamar, from the Foreword
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