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Some Went West
Dorothy M. Johnson
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Description for Some Went West
Paperback. Including a wealth of significant detail and drawing heavily on her heroines' own stories, this book creates the early West from a feminine viewpoint. It details about daily life and the great diversity of kinds of people who inhabited the Far West. Num Pages: 196 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 242.
Dorothy Johnson, author of The Hanging Tree and Indian Country, describes the great western experience of a number of nineteenth-century women of widely different situations and fates. Some were captured by Indians. Cynthia Ann Parker, assimilated to the Comanche tribe after being captured as a child, was later recaptured by U.S. soldiers who killed her Comanche husband and separated her forever from her sons. Pioneer Fanny Kelly spent five months as a captive of the Sioux; she went on to write a clearheaded book about her experiences. Some, like missionary Mary Richardson Walker and the independent Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair, showed ... Read more
Dorothy Johnson, author of The Hanging Tree and Indian Country, describes the great western experience of a number of nineteenth-century women of widely different situations and fates. Some were captured by Indians. Cynthia Ann Parker, assimilated to the Comanche tribe after being captured as a child, was later recaptured by U.S. soldiers who killed her Comanche husband and separated her forever from her sons. Pioneer Fanny Kelly spent five months as a captive of the Sioux; she went on to write a clearheaded book about her experiences. Some, like missionary Mary Richardson Walker and the independent Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair, showed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
196
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Weight
242g
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803275980
SKU
V9780803275980
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About Dorothy M. Johnson
Virginia Scharff is an associate professor of history at the University of New Mexico and the author of Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age.
Reviews for Some Went West
“By including a wealth of significant detail and drawing heavily on her heroines’ own stories, the author admirably re-creates the early West from a feminine viewpoint.”—New York Times Book Review “The book’s strength is its . . . detail about daily life and the great diversity of kinds of people who inhabited the Far West.”—Library Journal