page_title: Eva Emery Dye
section_title: Literary career
hierarchical_section_title: Eva Emery Dye / Literary career
caption_attribution_description: English: Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America by Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A Publication date 1928 Topics Women Publisher Los Angeles, Calif., Publishers Press Collection uconn_libraries; americana Digitizing sponsor LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation Contributor University of Connecticut Libraries Language English 223 p. bports. c24 cm. Bookplateleaf 0003 Call number F595 .B59 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II Identifier womenofwestserie00binh Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t22c0sd8h Lccn 28021005 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Page-progression lr Pages 284 Possible copyright status Copyright either not claimed or not renewed. Item is in the public domain. Ppi 500 Scandate 20130807152456 Scanner scribe11.boston.archive.org Scanningcenter boston Full catalog record MARCXML
context_page_description: Eva Emery Dye was an American writer, historian, and prominent member of the Women's Suffrage movement. As the author of several historical novels, fictional yet thoroughly researched, she is credited with "romanticizing the historic West, turning it into a poetic epic of expanding civilization." Her best known work, The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis & Clark, is notable for being the first to present Sacagawea as a historically significant character in her own right.
context_section_description: "At the turn of the [20th] century Eva Emery Dye replaced [Frances Fuller] Victor as Oregon's best-known historical researcher," wrote Richard Etulain in 2001. "But Dye turned her prodigious findings toward other ends, producing several works of historical fiction."
  Writing in a style later described as "a curious blend of fact, fiction, biography, and romance," Dye first completed McLoughlin and Old Oregon (1900), a portrait of Doctor John McLoughlin 1784–1857, the former Chief Factor of the Columbia District and for years the de facto leader of the Oregon Country. While taking considerable liberties with its subject (including imagined scenes and invented dialogue), the work was nevertheless based upon considerable research, including extensive interviews with aged pioneers who had known McLoughlin personally.  The book's popular success established Dye as an author, and contributed to the posthumous re-evaluation of McLoughlin's complex role in American history. Dye and her husband also interceded when McLoughlin's house in Oregon City was slated for destruction, leading the effort to purchase it and restore it as a museum in 1910. It is now part of the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.
caption: Eva Emery Dye as depicted in a collage of eminent Oregon women, in the 1928 book Women of the West
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