No step backward
Subtitle: women and family on the Rocky Mountain mining frontier, Helena, Montana, 1865-1900
By: by Paula Petrik.
Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Helena
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Women -- Montana -- Helena -- History -- 19th century; Family -- Montana -- Helena -- History -- 19th century; Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Montana -- Helena -- History -- 19th century
Description: "At once a community study, a collective biography, and a statistical portrait of women residents of a Rocky Mountain mining town, historian Paula Petrik takes readers inside the world women created for themselves and their families in Helena, Montana, during the last decades of the nineteenth century. Using census records, tax rolls, county legal documents, personal letters, and newspapers, Petrik describes prostitutes, entrepreneurs, reformers suffragists, and middling women who lived in this dynamic commercial town on Montana's frontier."--Jacket.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 197-202.
Includes index.