So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier

ISBN-13: 9780803282483 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 354 str.

Treasure Chest Books

Opis

In this new and enlarged edition the editors have built on an already strong collection with four new accounts. Colorado pioneer Augusta Tabor gives a sense of the heady days as Leadville became a major mining center. Abigail Duniway describes the challenges of life for women in the Pacific Northwest. Effie Wiltbank s short selection is a reminiscence of her grandmother s receet for washing clothes, a chore that epitomizes the practical skill, determination, and common sense required of so many Western women. Apolinaria Lorenzana offers a rare glimpse of the operations of the mission system while illuminating the perils of living with the acquisitive Americans."