Women of the New Mexico frontier, 1846-1912
By: Cheryl J. Foote.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Women pioneers -- New Mexico -- History.; Frontier and pioneer life -- New Mexico.; New Mexico -- History -- 1848-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-192) and index.
Originally published: Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c1990.
"Chapter 5 of this book was first published in the Fall 1982 issue of Journal of Presbyterian History"--Verso t.p.
Table of contents: title: "A faithful and efficient helpmate" : missionary wives in New Mexico; title: "I will make my letters as interesting as possible" : army wives in the Southwest, 1850-1855; title: "You did as much for the U.S. as any soldier" : Ellen Williams, army laundress and nurse; title: "My husband was a madman and a murderer" : Josephine Clifford, army wife, writer, and conservationist; title: "My heart was in the work" : Alice Blake, mission teacher in the Southwest; title: "Every moment is golden for the ethnologist" : Matilda Coxe Stevenson in New Mexico.