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PublisherWest Margin Press

ISBN-10194332834X

ISBN-139781943328345

eBay Product ID (ePID)10038743767

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Book TitleWestward the Women

Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / 19th Century, General

Publication Year2016

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorNancy Wilson Ross

FormatHardcover

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Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-034591

Dewey Edition23

Reviews'eoeA dramatic and entertaining book.'e�'e"NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE'eoePoignant stories of women who risked everything for the great Western adventure.'e�'e"SATURDAY REVIEW'eoeI know of no other book devoted to the distaff side of pioneering that is at once so vivid and authentic.'e�'e"Bernard de Voto, NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE'eoeIt is a charming and lively book. . . . No work of pure fiction could equal this amazing true record of women'e(tm)s indomitable passage across the continent.'e�'e"CHICAGO SUN BOOK WEEK, "A dramatic and entertaining book."--NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE"Poignant stories of women who risked everything for the great Western adventure."--SATURDAY REVIEW"I know of no other book devoted to the distaff side of pioneering that is at once so vivid and authentic."--Bernard de Voto, NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE"It is a charming and lively book. . . . No work of pure fiction could equal this amazing true record of women's indomitable passage across the continent."--CHICAGO SUN BOOK WEEK

Dewey Decimal978.0082

Table Of Content1. Aprons to Their Eyes 2. Were Females Wanted? 3. Eight on Her Honeymoon 4. One Dare Not Be Nervous in Oregon 5. Red Women 6. Females Are Sought 7. $1 a Dance 8. The Prophet 9. The Rebel 10. Dear Diary 11. Over the Top of the World

SynopsisNew edition of a classic. WestWinds Press is proud to introduce to a new generation Nancy Wilson's Ross's lively history of some of the remarkable pioneer women of the American West., 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberF596.R82 2016