New women in the old West : from settlers to suffragists, an untold American story
by Gallagher, Winifred (Author)
Summary
"A riveting history of the American West told for the first time through the pioneering women who used the challenges of migration and settlement as opportunities to advocate for their rights, and transformed the country in the process. Between 1840 and 1910, over half a million men and women travel... Full description
- Introduction: unsettling women
- Home on the range
- The respectable community
- "Woman rights"
- Wyoming makes history
- A home of her own
- A man's education
- Women at work
- An ambitious organization of ladies
- "Do everything"
- Women and the "Indian question"
- Progressives and populists
- Suffrage central
- New women squared
- The east looks west
- The enfranchised west.