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Title So much to be done : women settlers on the mining and ranching frontier / edited by Ruth B. Moynihan, Susan Armitage, and Christiane Fischer Dichamp.

Imprint Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1990.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  920.720978 So1    ---  Available
Description xxii, 325 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Women in the West
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-325).
Contents "I am willing to go with you to any part of God's foot stool" / Mary Jane Hayden -- "We are satisfied to dig our gold in San Francisco" / Jerusha Merrill -- "I suppose you thought me foolish in wishing to go" / Lucetta Rogers -- "We surely thought a hoodoo was over us" / Mrs. E. A. Van Court -- "Turbulence and evil of every description" / Mrs. Lee Whipple-Haslam -- "It was a great trial for me to know just how to approach them" / Mrs. J. W. Likins -- "No persuits in common between us any more" / Carrie Williams -- "Of course we move in the best society" / Louise Palmer -- "I resolved to try and be cheerful" / Mrs. A. M. Green -- "To complain was never one of my traits of nature" / Mrs. Nat Collins -- "They go by the name of fancy women" / Louisa Cook.
"I couldn't stand Willie's laziness another day" / Malinda Jenkins -- "No door or window was ever locked" / Mary Ronan -- "My people will never believe me again" / Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins -- "It was all a wonder to me" / Mary Barnard Aguirre -- "Stopping place for travelers" / Sarah Butler York -- "If you are not afraid, neither am I" / Sister Blandina Segale -- "This is desolation itself" / Angeline Mitchell Brown -- "Nothing seemed permanent on the desert" / Sadie Martin.
Subject Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Sources.
West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Sources.
Added Author Moynihan, Ruth Barnes.
Armitage, Susan H. (Susan Hodge), 1937-
Dichamp, Christiane Fischer, 1947-
ISBN 080328165X (pbk. : alk. paper) : $12.95
0803231342 (alk. paper)

 
    
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