Pioneer Women

Alcím: Voices from the Kansas Frontier Író/Szerző: Joanna L. Stratton Kiadó: A Tauchstone Book Kiadás éve: 1982 Oldalszám: 319 Kötés: Puhatáblás Nyelv: Angol Állapot: jó Állapot leírása: Molnár László Miklós könyvtárából. Több mint negyven éve szenvedélyes kutatója a Vadnyugat történetének. Ismert könyvei: A híres vadnyugat; Old Shatterhand nyomában; A civil háború és a mormonok. Címoldalon Molnár László Miklós aláírásával. ISBN: 0671226118 Méret: 15,5 cm x 23,5 cm From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as "uncommonly interesting" and "a remarkable distillation of primary sources." Never before has there been such a detailed record of women's courage, such a living portrait of the women who civilized the American frontier. Here are their stories: wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders, and circuit riders. Their personal recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, cowboy shootouts, Indian raids, and blizzards on the plains vividly reveal the drama, danger and excitement of the pioneer experience. These were women of relentless determination, whose tenacity helped them to conquer loneliness and privation. Their work was the work of survival, it demanded as much from them as from their men--and at last that partnership has been recognized.