Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey - Softcover

Schlissel, Lillian; Gibbens, Byrd; Hampsten, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803292953 ISBN 13: 9780803292956

Verlag: Bison, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Schlissel Lillian Gibbens Byrd Hampsten Elizabeth

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Críticas

"One of the enduring myths of the Westward movement is the happy ending: families that survived the arduous journey found a rewarding new life despite hardships. . . . Here is a story of appalling poverty, feelings of inferiority, lack of communication. These are sad, even tragic, tales about women and family life on the frontier."-Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly * "The voices that emerge here eloquently tell [their] tale."-New Yorker * New Yorker * An immensely readable book that peers closely into the lives of ordinary American frontier families."-Booklist * Booklist *

Reseña del editor

Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn College–CUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western Women's Reader (with Catherine Lavender) and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West. Byrd Gibbens is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia campus, and the author of This Is a Strange Country: Letters of a Western Family 1880-1906.Elizabeth Hampsten is a professor of English at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and the author of Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains.

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• Verlag: Bison
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0803292953
• ISBN 13: 9780803292956
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284