The Gentle Tamers
Women of the Old Wild West
Dee Brown
- 308 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Gentle Tamers
Women of the Old Wild West
Dee Brown
About This Book
A fascinating history of women on America's western frontier by the #1 New York Times âbestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether it's the lone hero on horseback or crowds of card players in a rough-and-tumble saloon. But the taming of the frontier involved plenty of women, tooâand this book tells their stories. At first, female pioneers were indeed rareâwhen the town of Denver was founded in 1859, there were only five women among a population of almost a thousand. But the adventurers arrived, slowly but surely. There was Frances Grummond, a sheltered Southern girl who married a Yankee and traveled with him out west, only to lose him in a massacre. Esther Morris, a dignified middle-aged lady, held a tea party in South Pass City, Wyoming, that would play a role in the long, slow battle for women's suffrage. Josephine Meeker, an Oberlin College graduate, was determined to educate the Colorado Indiansâbut was captured by the Ute. And young Virginia Reed, only thirteen, set out for California as part of a group that would become known as the Donner Party. With tales of notables such as Elizabeth Custer, Carry Nation, and Lola Montez, this social history touches upon many familiar topicsâfrom the early Mormons to the gold rush to the dawn of the railroadsâwith a new perspective. This enlightening and entertaining book goes beyond characters like Calamity Jane to reveal the true diversity of the great western migration of the nineteenth century.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author's personal collection.
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