Portraits Of Women In The American West

by Garceau-Hagen; Dee

• ISBN13: 9780415948036
• ISBN10: 0415948037
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Portraits of Women in the American Westpresents vivid biographical essays about women from the intermountain West, the Pacific Northwest, and California during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included in this collection are essays about an African-American entrepreneur, a northern Paiute activist, an Ursuline nun, an enslaved Chinese settler, and a Chippewa-Cree basketball player. Taken together, these women's stories bring to life the complex and contradictory nature of gender, race, and culture in the history of the American West.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(20)
Chapter 1 Mining a Mythic Past: The History of Mary Ellen Pleasant	21	(16)
LYNN M. HUDSON
Chapter 2 Rape Narratives on the Northern Paiute Frontier: Sarah Winnemucca, Sexual Sovereignty, and Economic Autonomy, 1844-1891	37	(26)
ROSEMARIE STREMLAU
Chapter 3 Frances Fuller Victor's Promotion of Strong, Independent Womanhood: Women and Marriage Reconstructed in "The New Penelope"	63	(28)
JUNE JOHNSON BUBE
Chapter 4 "We had no Assistance from Anyone—Happier to Do It Alone": Montana, the Missions, and Mother Amadeus	91	(30)
ANNE M. BUTLER
Chapter 5 Finding Mary Fields: Race, Gender, and the Construction of Memory	121	(36)
DEE GARCEAU-HAGEN
Chapter 6 Reclaiming Polly Bemis: China's Daughter, Idaho's Legendary Pioneer	157	(22)
RUTHANNE LUM MCCUNN
Chapter 7 Unlikely Champion: Emma Rose Sansaver, 1884-1925	179	(30)
LINDA PEAVY AND URSULA SMITH
Chapter 8 The Curative Space of the American West in the Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart	209	(24)
NATALIE A. DYKSTRA
Chapter 9 Elizabeth Layton DeMary and the Rupert Culture Club: New Womanhood in a Reclamation Settlement Community	233	(28)
LAURA WOODWORTH-NEY
Contributors	261	(4)
Index	265