So Much to Be Done : Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier, 2nd Edition

Ruth B Moynihan; Susan Armitage; Christiane Fischer Dichamp
Unp - Nebraska Paperback
 9780803282483
0-8032-8248-6

In this new and enlarged edition the editors have built on an already strong collection with four new accounts. Colorado pioneer Augusta Tabor gives a sense of the heady days as Leadville became a major.

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mining center. Abigail Duniway describes the challenges of life for women in the Pacific Northwest. Effie Wiltbank's short selection is a reminiscence of her grandmother's "receet" for washing clothes, a chore that epitomizes the practical skill, determination, and common sense required of so many Western women. Apolinaria Lorenzana offers a rare glimpse of the operations of the mission system while illuminating the perils of living with the acquisitive Americans.