Grit and Ghosts : Following the Trail of Eight Tenacious Women Across a Century / Robin Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Robin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Women pioneers.

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

Pioneers.

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

Frontier and pioneer life.

Foster, Robin K--Travel--West (U.S.).

Foster, Robin K.

West (U.S.)--Description and travel.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, 2024.

Summary:

Grit and Ghosts tells the stories of eight women from the American West who speak to a shared human experience of struggle and the grit required to move through it.

Contents:

On Working Your Ass Off, Even When Justice Couldn't Care Less : Marguerite Lindsley, Yellowstone

On Memory (Or Imagination Disguised as Memory, Because Sometimes You Can't Tell the Difference) : Gertrude Stein, Oakland

On Struggle, Opportunity, and Running Full Speed Ahead : The Californians

On Fear and Its Alter Egos, Dread, Panic, Terror : Everywhere

On Dreams and Rumor : Teresa Urrea, Sonoran Desert

On Giving Everything You've Got : Cathay Williams, the Santa Fe Trail

On Going Solo : Mary Lou Williams and Julia Lee at the Crossroads, Kansas City.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781496241689

1496241681

9781496241672

1496241673