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True women & westward expansion / Adrienne Caughfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caughfield, Adrienne, 1971-
- Series:
- Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 24.
- Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women pioneers--Texas--History--19th century.
- Women pioneers.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Texas.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Women--Texas--Attitudes--History--19th century.
- Women.
- Public opinion--Texas--History--19th century.
- Public opinion.
- Women--Texas--Social conditions--19th century.
- Sex role--Texas--History--19th century.
- Sex role.
- United States--Territorial expansion--Public opinion.
- United States.
- Texas--History--19th century.
- Texas.
- Texas--Social conditions--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- True women and westward expansion
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the early nineteenth century, many women championed expansion for the cause of civilization while avoiding the masculine world of politics. Caughfield mines the diaries and letters of ninety Texas women, offering a new understanding of not only gender roles in the West but also the impulse for expansionism.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-174) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-05399-8
- 1-60344-603-6
- OCLC:
- 824699057
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