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Frontier women : the trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880
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- Creator
- Julie Roy Jeffrey
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Hill and Wang, 1979
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 240 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780809001415, 0809001411
- OCLC
- ocm04858039
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 205-228.
- Introduction -- Glimpses of western life -- Ladies have the hardest time, that emigrate by land -- A maid of all traids -- Am beginning to feel quite civilized -- The rarest commodity...are women -- If polygamy is the Lord's order, we must carry it out -- Will she not overstep the bounds of propriety if she ventures into the arena of action? -- Epilogue