Bibliograph

Brave hearted, the women of the American west 1836-1880, Katie Hickman

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Brave hearted, the women of the American west 1836-1880, Katie Hickman

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Brave hearted

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Katie Hickman

Sub title

the women of the American west 1836-1880

Summary

The true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is more gripping, heart-rending, and stirring than all the movies, novels, folk legends, and ballads of popular imagination. Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boomtowns; wives and mothers traveling two and 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 -- all were women forced to draw on huge reserves of resilience and courage in the face of tumultuous change. Drawing on letters, diaries, and other extraordinary contemporary accounts, sifting through the legends and the myths, historian Katie Hickman presents us with cast of unforgettable women . . . who participated in the greatest mass migration in American history, transforming their country in the process.--, Adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

"An unheard-of journey for females" -- Fort Vancouver -- Oregon fever -- Jumping off -- The Whitman Mission -- California -- Trapped -- Gold fever -- The mines -- White brothers -- Fort Laramie -- Utopias -- Captives -- Hell on wheels -- Military wives -- Camp followers -- Meanwhile, back in California... -- Strong-heart songs

Target audience

adult

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