Sweeping yet intimate, Butruille's second book gives voice to the women of the many western frontiers. At long last, we see contributions of Native American women alongside those of their immigrant sisters. A multicultural look at women on the western frontier.
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". . .polyphony of women who lived in diverse times and frontier settings. . . an engrossing journey. . .easygoing, conversational style make trip worthwhile." -- Oregon History Quarterly, Vol. 98, Number 3
"...book is radiant with songs and words and lives...recreates moments when the landscape and heart are one." -- Lillian Schliessel, Professor Emerita, American Studies, Brooklyn College
"sensitivity in explaining our customs. . .I am proud to know her as friend and women's historian." -- Wicahpi Win -- Star Woman--Bonnie Jo Hunt, President of Artists of Indian American, Inc.
Women's journals, songs and recipes supplement her survey of everyday life in the West, representing three years of research into the stories of ordinary frontier women's lives. Plenty of quotes from source material spice a revealing set of frontier experiences. -- Midwest Book Review
"...book is radiant with songs and words and lives...recreates moments when the landscape and heart are one." -- Lillian Schliessel, Professor Emerita, American Studies, Brooklyn College
"sensitivity in explaining our customs. . .I am proud to know her as friend and women's historian." -- Wicahpi Win -- Star Woman--Bonnie Jo Hunt, President of Artists of Indian American, Inc.
Women's journals, songs and recipes supplement her survey of everyday life in the West, representing three years of research into the stories of ordinary frontier women's lives. Plenty of quotes from source material spice a revealing set of frontier experiences. -- Midwest Book Review
About the Author
Susan Greffenius Butruille grew up with a closeness to the land in western Colorado, where her father was with the US Forest Service and her mother was a teacher. Now a resident of the Northwest, the author has lived with her forester husband and two sons in Wyoming, Alaska, Washington DC, Oregon, and Washington state. Her widely-published writing includes topics ranging from fishing to cowboys, needle artists to space women. A student and teacher of women's history, the author is a public speaker and workshop presenter as well as an award-winning author.
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This review is from: Women's Voices from the Western Frontier (Paperback)
The women of the early American West played a significant role in history, but many of their stories went untold, their voices unheard -- until this book. It's so readable, so filled with glimpses of lives and dreams, it's hard to put down. Who can forget Shell Flower, the Native American girl who thought white people were owls when she first saw them; or Mary Richardson Walker, struggling to be free yet fit the mold of the "True Woman"; or Lalu Nathoy, who sailed to America from China dreaming of fortune, only to be sold into prostitution. Or Esther Morris, the uppity woman who helped make Wyoming the first territory or state to grant voting rights to women. The book is crammed with memorable characters: the sporting women of Colorado who wore yellow satin and hid their pain with opium, the wild women like Calamity Jane and the French gamblers in California, the homesteaders, basket weavers, quiltmakers, each with a story of courage, hilarity or heartbreak. The book has recipes, letters, photographs, and songs. It's like a patchwork quilt, each piece a bit of priceless history.
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This book has really opened up my eyes!!!,
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This review is from: Women's Voices from the Western Frontier (Paperback)
I bought this book last summer, and while other teens were reading more popular books, I was reading a history book. It has really changed my outlook on western history. I have always been interested in the Oregon Trail, and such, but this has really encouraged me to read more of her books, and otheres like it. Y'all have got to read this book!!
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