True Women & Westward Expansion
by Caughfield, AdrienneFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-05-20
Publisher(s): Texas A & M Univ Pr
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Summary
Expansion was the fever of the early nineteenth century, and women burned with it as surely as men, although in a different way. Adrienne Caughfield mines the diaries and letters of some ninety Texas women to uncover the ideas and enthusiasms they brought to the Western frontier.
Table of Contents
| Preface | vii | ||||
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||||
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38 | (19) | |||
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57 | (24) | |||
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81 | (16) | |||
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97 | (20) | |||
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117 | (19) | |||
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136 | (9) | |||
| Notes | 145 | (20) | |||
| Bibliography | 165 | (10) | |||
| Index | 175 |
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