Frontier women : the trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880 / 6
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Julie Roy Jeffrey.
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 205-228.
Introduction -- Glimpses of western life -- Ladies have the hardest time, that emigrate by land -- A maid of all traids -- Am beginning to feel quite civilized -- The rarest commodity...are women -- If polygamy is the Lord's order, we must carry it out -- Will she not overstep the bounds of propriety if she ventures into the arena of action? -- Epilogue.
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Chronicles the heroic achievements of America's frontier women.