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Frontier Children
Linda Peavy, Ursula Smith
Reg. Price: $19.95
176 pages, 10 3/4 x 8, 206 b&w illus, paperback, University of Oklahoma Press
Enriched by more than 200 vintage photographs, Frontier Children is a visual and literary montage of the faces and scenes of childhood in the nineteenth-century American West. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith have brought together stories and images that erase stereotypes to reveal the infinite variety of childhood experiences on the western frontier.
"Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith lead us into two territories that are both intimate and alien. The first is the American frontier, which haunts our memory as a place of national beginnings. . . . The second territory is that of individual origins--our childhoods. We form our personal myths, the stories that explain who we are, through remembered moments from the age of seven or twelve. . . . Like our selected frontier episodes, these personal memories shaped us, we believe; and so they are still with us. . . . The experiences of frontier children are a distinctively American variation of what draws us to all history."--Elliott West, from the Foreword
135050
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19.95 USD
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Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women On the Frontier
Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith.
Reg. Price: $24.95
144 pages, 175 illus, notes, biblio, index, paperback, University of Oklahoma Press
Pioneer Women provides a rare look at frontier life through the eyes of the pioneer women who settled the American West. Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith vividly describe the hardships such women endured journeying west and making homes and communities on the frontier. Their hopes and fears and, most of all, their courage in the face of adversity are revealed in excerpts from journals, letters, and oral histories. Illustrated with a fascinating collection of seldom-seen photographs, Pioneer Women reveals the faces as well as the voices of women who lived on the frontier.
The authors portray a wide variety of women, from those who found liberty and confidence in undertaking "men's work" to those who felt burdened by the wind, the weather, and the struggle of frontier life.
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"This ’patchwork’ of women’s words and pictures captures the pioneer experience memorably and elegantly. Just as a quilt is made up of many small pieces, this books is based on a multitude of individual stories and a rich range of source material. The authors stitch the pieces together skillfully and unobtrusively, presenting us with an overall picture that is both detailed and sweeping in its design. This is a book to enjoy and learn from. Like an heirloom quilt, this is a book to be treasured."--Susan Armitage, coeditor of The Women’s West and Writing The Range
130547
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24.95 USD
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