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Cathy Luchetti's Women of the West (in collaboration with Carol Olwell) received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Literary Excellence, and Home on the Range: A Culinary History of the American West won the James Beard Award for Best Writings on Food. She is also the author of Under God's Spell: Frontier Evangelists, 1772-1915. She lives in Oakland, California.
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Expansion Was A Time Of radical change in America. The upheaval of moving west and beginning a new life from scratch was difficult for those who made the trip. "Except for love..." said Isabella Bird of Colorado in 1873, "this is a wretched existence." In spite of the rough conditions and frequent shortages of suitable partners in the West, the pioneers met, fell in love and married, but were forced to adapt their courting to a frontier life. The civilized comforts and proprieties of the East yielded to many new ways of finding a mate, from personal ads to rental brides. The West was not all wild, however: Religion still played a strong role in western life, whether lovers were Mormon, Catholic, Baptist or Buddhist; and the traditions of immigrants from Europe, Asia and the Americas all helped to form courtship and marriage rituals on the frontier.

Through period photographs, extracts from journals and letters and reminiscences, Cathy Luchetti's subjects tell the true

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  • PublisherCrown Pub
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 0517884496
  • ISBN 13 9780517884492
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  • Number of pages308
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