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Immigrant women in the settlement of Missouri / Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burnett, Robyn.
- Series:
- Missouri heritage readers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women pioneers--Missouri--History.
- Women immigrants--Missouri--History.
- Women pioneers--Missouri--Biography.
- Women immigrants--Missouri--Biography.
- Pioneers--Missouri--History.
- Immigrants--Missouri--History.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Missouri.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Manners and customs.
- Immigrants.
- History.
- Pioneers.
- Women immigrants.
- Women pioneers.
- Missouri.
- Missouri--Social life and customs.
- Missouri--Biography.
- Missouri--Social life and customs--Sources.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 149 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- "Focuses on the lives of immigrant women in Missouri from the colonial period to the Civil War to industrialization. Draws heavily on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of immigrant women from many social classes and ethnic backgrounds and contains photographs and narratives relating to immigrant life"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Immigrant Settlement in Missouri 5
- 2 Women Immigrants 13
- 3 Women in Early French Villages 23
- 4 Women in Colonial St. Louis 30
- 5 Journey to Missouri 36
- 6 Life in Early St. Louis 45
- 7 Immigrant Women on the Frontier 54
- 8 German Women and the Church 60
- 9 Immigrant Women in Religious Orders 69
- 10 Women and the Civil War 79
- 11 Immigration after the Civil War 87
- 12 Immigrant Farm Families 95
- 13 Town Life 103
- 14 Immigrant Neighborhoods in St. Louis 111
- 15 Women and Work in Industrializing Missouri 119
- 16 The First Decades of the Twentieth Century 126
- 17 Missouri's Patchwork Quilt 133.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826215912
- OCLC:
- 58386410
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