WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort,
from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American
adventure—pioneering across the continent. Not only does the
material represent half-forgotten history—which the author
garnered from attics, libraries, state historical museums, and the
reminiscences of Far Western Old-timers—but it is unique in
presenting the woman’s side of the story in this major American
experience. With dramatic clarity the author of FARTHEST REACH has
written the intimate and human stories of certain outstanding
personalities among these pioneer women; the Maine blue-stocking
pursuing her studies of botany and taxidermy in frontier solitude;
the gentle nuns from Belgium teaching needlework and litanies to
“children of the forest”; the little ex-milliner who performed
the first autopsy by a woman; the suffragette who established a
newspaper for Western women and rode plushy river boats and the
dusty roads preaching her gospel of Equal Rights; hurdy-gurdy girls
from Idaho boomtowns; and many another martyr, heroine, diarist,
gun moll, missionary, feminist, and mother in this turbulent era of
pioneering.
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