Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 -with 32 pages of photos and maps

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1983. -----Quarter bound in brown cloth, beige boards with gilt on spine, no names, (xxii) 365 pages including 32 pages of b & w photos plus maps, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition with minor edge wear. "Sandra Myres perceptively reinterprets here the lives and impressions of a variety of frontier women from entrepreneurs and suffrage workers to farmers' wives and colorful characters like Calamity Jane and Poker Alice. Her impeccable attention to historical detail combined with the sheer fascination of the materials and subject make a book that will apperal to many readers." Contents include: Foreword by Howard R. Lamar / Preface / Note on Sources / The Madonna of the Prairies and Calamity Jane: Images of Westering Women / The Pleasing Awfulness: Women's Views of Wilderness / "Land of Savagery/Land of Promise": Women's Views of Indians / The Savage Within: Women, Race, Religion, and Class on the Frontier / Westward Ho!: Women on the Overland Trails / A New Home - Who'll Follow: Women and Frontier Homemaking / A Pioneer's Search for an Ideal Home: Women, Family, and Community on the Frontier / Suffering for Suffrage: Women and the Struggle for Political, Legal, and Economic Rights / If All We Did Was To Weep at Home: Women as Frontier Entrepeneurs / sources / list of abbreviations / notes / index. The scan you see is the book you get. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Illus. by Jacket Illustration: W. H. D. Koerner, "Before the Railroad Came". 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".