Abolitionists, doctors, ranchers, & writers : a family journey through American history / Lynne Marie Getz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Getz, Lynne Marie, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wattles, Augustus, 1807-1876--Family.

Wattles, Augustus.

Wattles, Susan Elvira, 1810-1898--Family.

Wattles, Susan Elvira.

Brown, John, 1800-1859--Friends and associates.

Brown, John.

Wattles family.

Brown, John, 1800-1859.

Wattles, Augustus, 1807-1876.

Friends and associates.

Families.

Physical Description:

xi, 353 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Abolitionists, doctors, ranchers, and writers

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]

Summary:

Nearly 250 years after ninety-five-year-old Elder Thomas Faunce got caught up in the mythmaking around Plymouth Rock, his great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter Hilda Faunce Wetherill died in Pacific Grove, California, leaving behind a cache of letters and family papers. The remarkable story they told prompted historian Lynne Marie Getz to search out related collections and archives-and from these to assemble a family chronology documenting three generations of American life. Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers tells of zealous abolitionists and free-stare campaigners aiding and abetting John Brown in Bleeding Kansas; of young women who became doctors in rural Texas and New York City in the late nineteenth century; of a homesteader and businessman among settler colonists in Colorado; and of sisters who married into the Wetherill family-known for their discovery of Ancient Pueblo sites at Mesa Verde and elsewhere-who catered to a taste for western myths with a trading post on a Navajo reservation and a guest ranch for tourists on the upper Rio Grande. Book jacket.

Contents:

Susan and Augustus: partners for reform

For freedom and equality: the Wattles family in Kansas

Sarah: the making of a feminist consciousness

The Wattles family in the Civil War, part 1: a scattered home front

The Wattles family in the Civil War, part 2: fighting for union and memory

"My dear doctor": the medical career of the Wattles sisters

A westering family: the Wattleses-Faunces as settler colonists

A western identity: the Wetherill women

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780700624898

0700624899

9780700624904

0700624902

OCLC:

986090957