Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919 (Gender and American Culture)
"A bold, multifaceted, and well-documented study of a newly surprising old American West."—Legacy"Highly engaging. . . . A stunning example of making 'new' western studies work."—Great Plains Quarterly"The steady theme that unites the book . . . illuminates this period and topic in a new and exciting manner."—American Historical Review"Presents a useful summary of the way non-Native women related to Native women during the industrializing years of 1860-1910, a period in Indian history that needs much more research."—CHOICE"A valuable scholarly work that would be engaging to readers interested in nineteenth-century disputes in the American West over women's labor, gender roles, indigenous cultures and assimilation, and attitudes toward housework and home."—Western American Literature