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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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2017.
- Summary:
- Using family letters, this book traces three generations of a family of abolitionists, women doctors, ranchers, and Indian traders. The Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family left an important written legacy of the struggle against slavery, life in the Civil War, the experiences of some of the first women to be doctors in America, and the trials of western settlement.
- 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.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780700624911
- 0700624910
- OCLC:
- 1006298911
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