[ Frontier Women (Revised)[ FRONTIER WOMEN (REVISED) ] By Jeffrey, Julie Roy ( Author )Feb-28-1998 Paperback

by Julie Roy Jeffrey

"Frontier Women is the classic history of women on America's frontiers, now updated and thoroughly revised. It is an imaginative and graceful account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions of women to continental expansion. In this new edition, Julie Roy Jeffrey has tapped new sources and expanded her analysis to include the often overlooked perspectives of women of color."

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[Bruce · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book describes the lives of women who went to the frontier and beyond. Some were reticent but left their extended families to search for better farmland and riches with their husband and children. The experiences are predominantly those of white "Protestant" women who viewed the world through eyes that saw their culture as being superior to all others. They paid little attention to those already on the land they and their husbands were taking over. Neither Native American nor Hispanic were respected. There is an interesting chapter on the Mormon experience but little mention of African Americans. Inasmuch as those who had no written language or could not write did not provide any written record and so what is known of their experience is seen through biased eyes.