num_pages: 264
description: Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn College-CUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western Women's Reader (with Catherine Lavender) and Black A History of African American Heroes in the Old West. Byrd Gibbens is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia campus, and the author of This Is a Strange Letters of a Western Family 1880-1906.Elizabeth Hampsten is a professor of English at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and the author of Settlers' Growing Up on the Great Plains.
language: English
title: Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey
titlecomplete: Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey
genres: History, American History, Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 77
publisher: University of Nebraska Press