Westering Women and the Frontier Experience 1800-1915
Entry/Object ID
L9999.999.1035
Description
Westering Women and the Frontier Experience is an extensive study about women and all they had to face at the time and "their views on wilderness, Indians, race, and religion as well as how they reacted to the daily challenges of keeping house, raising a family and gaining a measure of equality." It includes entrepreneurs, farmers' wives, and suffrage workers as well as "colorful characters like Calamity Jane."
365/Softbound/Illustrations/Maps/Photographs
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Book
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Westerns, Settlements, Farming
Search Terms
19th Century American West, 20th Century American West, Frontier and Pioneer Life, Indian Interaction, Western Migration, Women in the West, Calamity Jane
