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Virginia Scharff

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History, Mystery & Thrillers

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VIRGINIA SCHARFF grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and fell in love with history at an early age. Her picaresque academic career began as a member of the first class of women to spend their undergraduate years at Yale University, before heading west, to grow up with the country. She lived in California, Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado, and Texas, where she studied journalism and history and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona. She now serves as Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and also as Women of the West Chair at the Autry National Center of the American West, in Los Angeles.

Virginia’s academic honors include being named Beinecke Research Fellow in the La ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 412 ratings · 73 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Women Jefferson Loved 3.79 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age 4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Richmond During the War: Four Years of Personal Observation by Sallie Brock Putnam, Virginia Scharff (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1867 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945 by Patricia Trenton, Virginia Scharff (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Went West by Dorothy M. Johnson, Virginia Scharff (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Lands: How Women Made the West by Virginia Scharff (Goodreads Author), Carolyn Brucken, Gail Lee Dubrow (Contributor) 3.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Present Tense: The United States Since 1945 by Michael Schaller, Robert D. Schulzinger, Virginia Scharff (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taking the Wheel Women and the Coming of the Motor Age 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Women are not supposed to take up much room, or to go very far from home, or to stay away for long. They are not supposed to be by themselves. They are supposed to hear and obey, to come back when they are called.”
― Virginia Scharff

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“No one can predict at the outset where the life stream will lead, but those moments of fissure, rupture, diversion, and frustration require choice and can become springboards to opportunity.”
― Virginia Scharff

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