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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Brave hearted
    sub title: the women of the American West 1836-1880
  name:
    name part: Hickman, Katie
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biography.
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: "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. 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--all were women forced to draw on huge reserves of resilience and courage in the face of tumultuous change. 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 cast of unforgettable women: 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. This is the story of the women who participated in the greatest mass migration in American history, transforming their country in the process; a tale brought to life by a brilliant social historian and a dynamic storyteller. This is American history, not as it was romanticized, but as it was lived"--
  table of contents: "An unheard-of journey for females" -- Fort Vancouver -- Oregon fever -- Jumping off -- The Whitman Mission -- California -- Trapped -- Gold fever -- The mines -- White brothers -- Fort Laramie -- Utopias -- Captives -- Hell on wheels -- Military wives -- Camp followers -- Meanwhile, back in California... -- Strong-heart songs.
  target audience: adult
  note: Katie Hickman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-357) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usp--
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mason, Biddy
      name part: 1818-1891
  subject:
    name:
      name part: McLoughlin, Marguerite
      name part: 1775-1860
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Oatman, Olive Ann
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss
      name part: 1808-1847
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mason, Biddy
      name part: 1818-1891
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Oatman, Olive Ann
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss
      name part: 1808-1847
  subject:
    topic: Women
    geographic: West (U.S.)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Pioneers
    geographic: West (U.S.)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Women pioneers
    geographic: West (U.S.)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: West (U.S.)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Pioneers
  subject:
    topic: Women
  subject:
    topic: Women pioneers
  subject:
    geographic: West United States
  classification: HQ1438.W45 H53 2022
  classification: HQ1438.W45 H5356 2022
  classification: 978/.02
  identifier: 9781954118171
  identifier: 1954118171
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220209
    record change date: 20221115143901.1
    record identifier: in00004633095
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng