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THE GENTLE TAMERS : Women of the Old Wild West
by Brown, Dee Alexander
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0803250258
- ISBN 13
- 9780803250253
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Lincoln, NB: Bison Books/Univ of Nebraska Press, 1981. First Edition, 5th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light surface wear. First published 1958; this is the 5th Printing of the 1981 reissue. And, who were the women who took part in the migration west? Focusing on the period of 1850 - 1880, historian and novelist Dee Alexander Brown (1908 - 2002) examines period letters and journals for answer. Best known for Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), Brown writes again with much empathy; text includes stories of Elizabeth Custer, Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Meeker, among others. 16 chapters: 1, The Sunbonnet Myth; II, "Perial Lay at Every Hand"; III, The Army Girls; IV, Beau Sabreur & His Lady Fair' V, Some Ladies of Easy Virtue; VI, "Many a Weary Mile". VII, A Lodging for the Night; VIII, Vanity Conquers All; IX, " A Light Light Diverion"; X, Pink Tights & Red Velvet Skirts; XI, A Home in the West; XII, The Great Female Shortage; XIII, Wyoming Tea Party; XIV, Casting Off the Shackles; XV, Schoolmarms & Maternal Forces; and, XVI, Male Point of View
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- THE GENTLE TAMERS : Women of the Old Wild West
- Author
- Brown, Dee Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 5th Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0803250258
- ISBN 13
- 9780803250253
- Publisher
- Bison Books/Univ of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln, NB
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- History/Sociology/American West/Frontier & Pioneer Life/Women
- Bookseller catalogs
- Feminism/Women Studies;
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