Portraits of women in the American West /
Garceau-Hagen, Dee,1955-
New York ; London : Routledge,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mining a mythic past : the history of Mary Ellen Pleasant / Lynn M. Hudson -- Rape narratives on the northern Paiute frontier : Sarah Winnemucca, sexual sovereignty, and economic autonomy, 1844-1891 / Rosemarie Stremlau -- Frances Fuller Victor's promotion of strong, independent womanhood : women and marriage reconstructed in "The new Penelope" / June Johnson Bube -- We had no assistance from anyone-- happier to do it alone : Montana, the missions, and Mother Amadeus / Anne M. Butler -- Finding Mary Fields : race and gender and the construction of memory / Dee Garceau-Hagen -- Reclaiming Polly Bemis : China's daughter, Idaho's legendary pioneer / Ruthanne Lum McCunn -- Unlikely champion : Emma Rose Sansaver, 1884-1925 / Linda Peavey and Ursula Smith -- The curative space of the American West in the life and letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart / Natalie Dykstra -- Elizabeth Layton DeMary and the Rupert Culture Club : new womanhood in a reclamation settlement community / Laura Woodworth-Ney.
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