Books like Women and Indians on the frontier, 1825-1915 by Glenda Riley
First publish date: 1984
Authors: Glenda Riley
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Frederick Jackson Turner's essays examine how the shifting frontier shaped American society and democracy.
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A young man's journey across the Oregon Trail and interactions with the Oglala Indians.
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This information-laden book,written for the general public interested in the pioneer life in Iowa and the average woman on the American frontier, focuses on the reality of frontierswomen's daily lives. The women themselves reveal what they were doing and thinking doing this period through their letters, diaries, journals, and other writing. Particular attention is paid to the women who came to Iowa in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Glenda Riley emphasizes and brings to life women's true contribution to the frontier. She stresses the economic contribution of women to western settlement and development and destroys the many myths and stereotypes regarding frontier women. Diaries and letters are blended with more formal data such as contemporary newspapers, census reports, and the secondary accounts. "The goal is to portray the lives of real frontierswomen and challenge the legitimacy of the colorful but inauthentic typologies of them."
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Until the mid 1970s, frontierswomen appeared in histories of the American West only as one-dimensional stereotypes or not at all. The intention of this study is to demonstrate not only that women did play highly significant and multifaceted roles in the development of the American West but also that their lives as settlers displayed fairly consistent patterns which transcended geographic sections of the frontier. Further, the author maintains that these shared experiences and responses of frontierswomen constituted a "female frontier." In other words, frontierswomen's responsibilities, life styles, and sensibilities were shaped more by gender considerations than by region.
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