Women of the West

by Cathy Luchetti, Carol Olwell

Overview

“An authentic, refreshing and even inspiring view of life on the frontier.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.

A myth-shattering look at the women who helped to settle the West, told through their own words and illustrated with 150 period photographs. Through these photos, plus diaries, memoirs, letters, and journals, Women of the West introduces 11 real frontier women whose words combine to re-create a place and time when resourcefulness and courage were demanded of everyone. This is American history, not as it was romanticized, but as it was lived.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393321555
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/17/2001
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	10.60(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Cathy Luchetti is the author of numerous works including Women of the West, Children of the West, and Home on the Range. She lives in Oakland, California.

Carol Olwell is the author of Gardening from the Heart and the coauthor of A Gift to the Street.

Editorial Reviews

"The focus on minority women gives this overview . . . a human appeal rarely touched in most history books of the westward expansion."

Kansas City Star

"Anyone interested in American history should read [this]."

Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Handled with a very human touch throughout."

Seattle Times

"An elegant connective narrative and 150 remarkable photographs put . . . the [nineteenth] century’s history in more realistic perspective."

|Los Angeles Times

An elegant connective narrative and 150 remarkable photographs put ....the [nineteenth] century's history in more realistic perspective.

Los Angeles Times

An authentic, refreshing and even inspiring view of life on the frontier.

San Francisco Chronicle

[H]andled with a very human touch throughout all these diaries.... this is quite a book.

Seattle Times

[A] human appeal rarely touched in most history books of the westward expansion.

Kansas City Star

[Evokes] a striking portrait of everyday life among nineteenth-century women.

St. Petersburg Times