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Women on the Prairie

By Ward McLendon

Women on the Prairie

By Ward McLendon

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Women on the Prairie presents a rigorously researched narrative history of women who lived, labored, and endured on the American frontier during the nineteenth century. Drawing on diaries, letters, contemporary accounts, and modern historical scholarship, this volume examines the daily realities of pioneer women, Native American women, nurses, homesteaders, activists, and survivors whose lives shaped the settlement of the American West.
Rather than romanticizing frontier life, this book documents the physical hardship, isolation, violence, disease, and moral complexity of westward expansion. Readers encounter women confronting childbirth without medical care, navigating cultural conflict, sustaining families through famine and war, and asserting agency in environments structured to deny it.
Written for general readers, students, and libraries, Women on the Prairie blends narrative storytelling with historical accuracy, offering a corrective to male-centered frontier histories. It is an essential companion to studies of American westward expansion, women's history, and nineteenth-century United States social history. This title is part of the American Frontier Chronicles series.
Product details
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
222
Release Date:
2025-12-18
Publication Date:
2025-12-12
Publisher:
Unbound Press Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1971207020
ISBN13:
9781971207025
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Maximum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
518 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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