Pioneer WomenSimon and Schuster, 1982年9月17日 - 319页 From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “uncommonly interesting” and “a remarkable distillation of primary sources.” Never before has there been such a detailed record of women’s courage, such a living portrait of the women who civilized the American frontier. Here are their stories: wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders, and circuit riders. Their personal recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, cowboy shootouts, Indian raids, and blizzards on the plains vividly reveal the drama, danger and excitement of the pioneer experience. These were women of relentless determination, whose tenacity helped them to conquer loneliness and privation. Their work was the work of survival, it demanded as much from them as from their men—and at last that partnership has been recognized. “These voices are haunting” (The New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before. |
目录
Introduction by Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Foreword | 17 |
PART | 31 |
The Journey | 33 |
The Settlement | 46 |
Daily Life on the Prairie | 57 |
PART | 77 |
Fighting the Wild | 79 |
Fighting the Elements | 89 |
17 | 225 |
The Wounds of War | 233 |
Temperance and Suffrage | 253 |
Guide to the Lilla Day Monroe Collection | 269 |
33 | 275 |
46 | 301 |
305 | |
313 | |
Indians | 107 |
The Frontier Town | 187 |
The Cow Town | 205 |
Victoria | 223 |
314 | |
316 | |
318 | |
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