Women of the West - Softcover

Luchetti, Cathy; Olwell, Carol

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0917946030 ISBN 13: 9780917946035

Publisher: Antelope Island Press, 1984

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A myth-shattering look at the women who helped to settle the West, told through their own words and illustrated with 150 period photographs. Through these photos, plus diaries, memoirs, letters, and journals, Women of the West introduces 11 real frontier women whose words combine to re-create a place and time when resourcefulness and courage were demanded of everyone. This is American history, not as it was romanticized, but as it was lived.

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Anyone interested in American history should read [this].

The focus on minority women gives this overview . . . a human appeal rarely touched in most history books of the westward expansion.

Handled with a very human touch throughout.

An elegant connective narrative and 150 remarkable photographs put . . . the [nineteenth] century's history in more realistic perspective.

About the Author:

Cathy Luchetti is the author of numerous works including Women of the West, Children of the West, and Home on the Range. She lives in Oakland, California.

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