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1 online resource (x, 215 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Women in the West
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Women in the West.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index. |
| Summary |
The Important Things of Life examines women's work and family lives in Sweetwater County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The discovery of coal in the 1880s caused a population boom, attracting immigrants from numerous ethnic groups. At the same time, liberalized homestead law drew sheep and cattle ranchers. Dee Garceau illuminates the economic and social importance of women in the ethnically diverse working-class towns as well as in the decentralized agricultural and ranching communities populated by native-born, middle-class Anglo-American families. Augmented by reminiscences and oral histories, this book traces the adaptations that broadened women's work roles and increased their domestic authority. Garceau also demonstrates how survival on the ranching and mining frontier heightened the value of group cooperation. Hers is a compelling portrait of the American West as a laboratory of gender role change, in which migration, relocation, and new settlement underscored the development of new social identities. |
| Contents |
Sweetwater County: desert highway, company town, cowboy west -- Family networks: a web of support -- "I got a girl here, would you like to meet her?": courtship, ethnicity, and community -- "My wife just doesn't like it here and I'm going to let her go back": marriage and patriarchal authority in transition -- Group partnership and cowboy myth: the gendering of ranch work -- Single women homesteaders and the meanings of independence: places on the map, places in the mind -- From Klenickso to main street: town women's work -- "Grasping at the shadow": the paradox of change. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women pioneers -- Wyoming -- Sweetwater County -- Social conditions.
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Women pioneers. |
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Wyoming -- Sweetwater County. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women pioneers -- Wyoming -- Sweetwater County -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming -- Sweetwater County.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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Sex role -- Wyoming -- Sweetwater County -- History.
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Sex role. |
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History. |
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Families -- Wyoming -- Sweetwater County.
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Families. |
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Sweetwater County (Wyo.) -- Social conditions.
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Sweetwater County (Wyo.) -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Garceau-Hagen, Dee, 1955- Important things of life. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1997 0803221630 (DLC) 97009485 (OCoLC)36470289 |
| ISBN |
0585276323 (electronic book) |
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9780585276328 (electronic book) |
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0803221630 (alkaline paper) |
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9780803221635 (alkaline paper) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5001 T413 -1997 |
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