Uncommon common women
Subtitle: ordinary lives of the West
By: Anne M. Butler, Ona Siporin.
Contributors: Siporin, Ona.
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Logan, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Women -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Description: Based on the successful lecture/performance that Anne Butler and Ona Siporin have been presenting throughout the Intermountain West for several years, this work brings their art, scholarship and wisdom to the printed page. Uncommon Common Women will broaden and enrich the general reader's understanding of women's lives during the western emigration era.

The authors cast a wide net; they are not interested in promoting the stereotypes of the West - the schoolmarm and the dance hall girl - but rather in bringing to notice the forgotten roles and gritty realities of women's lived experience during what was often a brutally difficult time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-132).
Errata slip included.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Women of the prairies; title: Immigrant women; title: Indigenous women; title: Women of the schoolhouse; title: Women of the criminal world; title: Women of the fort and the city; title: Work, grief, and joy.