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Hickman, Katie.
BRAVE HEARTED
[Libby] :
The Women of the American West.
Spiegel & Grau by OrangeSky Audio,
2022.
us history.
immigrant.
Mexican history.
pioneer.
Native American.
Black history.
Transcontinental Railroad.
Louisiana Purchase.
the West.
wild west.
Outlaws.
native american history.
19th Century.
american history.
women's history.
missouri history.
african american history.
Rocky Mountains.
Calamity Jane.
Frontier.
fugitive.
Utah history.
American west.
cowgirl.
New Mexico History.
United States History.
Yellowstone.
Tall Tales.
settler.
prostitute.
oregon trail.
California History.
freed slave.
Braveheart.
fugitive slave.
indian territory.
mormon history.
idaho history.
laura ingalls wilder.
Native American reservation.
Fort Laramie.
Michigan history.
montana history.
oregon history.
Wyoming history.
Nebraska History.
american myths.
Chinese Immigrant.
European Immigrant.
Katie Hickman.
chinese proustite.
chinese railroad worker.
donner reed xamp.
fort kearny.
whitman splading expedition.
brave hearted.
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History.
Women's Studies.
Nonfiction.
HTML:<p>Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives and mothers traveling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys, some of them so poor they walked the entire route; African-American women in search of freedom from slavery; Chinese sex-workers sold openly on the docks of San Francisco; Native American women brutally displaced by the unstoppable tide of white settlers – these were the women who settled the American West, whose stories until now have remained mostly untold. As the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes, "Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and—like the wiry grass— seem as difficult to weed out and discard." But the true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is more gripping, heart-rending, and stirring than all the movies, novels, folk-legends, and ballads of popular imagination. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>Drawing on letters, diaries, and other extraordinary contemporary accounts, sifting through the legends and the myths, the laws and the treaties, Katie Hickman presents us with a cast of unforgettable women, all forced to draw on huge reserves of resilience<strong> </strong>and courage in the face of tumultuous change: the half Cree, Marguerite McLoughlin, the much-admired "First Lady" of Fort Vancouver; the Presbyterian missionary Narcissa Whitman, who in 1837 became the first white woman to make the overland journey west across the Rocky Mountains; Biddy Mason, the Mississippi slave who fought for her freedom through the courts of California; Olive Oatman, adopted by the Mohave, famous for her facial tattoos. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>This is the story of the women who participated in the greatest mass migration in American history, transforming their country in the process. This is American history not as it was romanticized but as it was lived. </p>.
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Bradley, Nerissa.
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