Twenty thousand roads : women, movement, and the West / Virginia Scharff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scharff, Virginia.

Contributor:

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Women pioneers.

Women--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Women.

Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).

Frontier and pioneer life.

West (U.S.)--Biography.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7517)

Physical Description:

xi, 239 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]

Summary:

From Sacagawea's Travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. In this book Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of U.S. history -- our restless, relentless westward movement -- but she sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Her spirited stories weave a lyrical reconsideration of the processes that created, gave meaning to, and ultimately shattered the West.

Contents:

Part 1 Before the West

1. Seeking Sacagawea 11

2. The Hearth of Darkness: Susan Magoffin on Suspect Terrain 35

Part 2 In the West

3. Empire, Liberty, and Legend: Woman Suffrage in Wyoming 67

4. Marking Wyoming: Grace Raymond Hebard and the West as Woman's Place 93

5. "So Many Miles to a Person": Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Makes New Mexico 115

Part 3 Beyond the West

6. Resisting Arrest: Jo Ann Robinson and the Power to Move 139

7. The Long Strange Trip of Pamela Des Barres 157

8. They Paved Paradise 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-228) and index.

Local Notes:

Schimmel 7517: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Author's ink autograph on title page.

ISBN:

0520212126

0520237773

OCLC:

50279905