description: The Presumptuous Dreamer is a major new major work on the national woman's rights movement as lived by an early Oregon writer, journalist, lecturer and wife. Abigail Scott Duniway worked at the cause of woman suffrage as she saw it and was a colleague of Susan B. Anthony for nearly 30 years. Numerous vignettes of known and little known personalities provide unique insight into the social problems of that period of United States the issue of slavery in the Oregon territory; the family, the media, the politicians, transportation, the people who began, and those who objected to, the many facets of national progress. Written and compiled from sources of standard reference information combined with unpublished letters, diaries, and family records, the text is annotated with 60 pages of critical references. The twenty-five page index will aid researcher, librarian and student of history. The author presents the social environment which led Abigail Scott Duniway into the center of the Oregon and national woman's rights movement. This piece of Americana brings into focus for the first time the beginnings of the career of a great pioneer.
language: English
title: The Presumptuous Dreamers: A Sociological History of the Life & Times of Abigail Scott Duniway, 1834-1871
titlecomplete: The Presumptuous Dreamers: A Sociological History of the Life & Times of Abigail Scott Duniway, 1834-1871 (Western Americana Book)
publisher: Smith Smith & Smith Pub Co