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Women Writers of the West: Five Chroniclers of the American Frontier (Notable Western Women)
Women Writers of the West Five Chroniclers of the American Frontier - Notable Western Women Author:Danneberg Julie In Women Writers of the West, meet five notable women driven to write and succeed at a time when ambition in women was viewed as a flaw, not an asset. Thanks to Jessie Benton Fremont's vivid descriptions (penned in her husband's name) of her husband Lt. John Fremont's historic explorations, a nation was captivated by t... more »he rugged American frontier. Louise Clappe's letters home shared the happiness and hardships in a California gold rush mining camp. Mary Hallock Foote brought the West alive in words and pictures. Helen Hunt Jackson described the ugliness of America's Indian policy in both nonfiction and in her unforgettable novel, Ramona. Finally, Sioux writer Gertrude Bonnin's stories revealed the sweetness of her South Dakota childhood and the bitterness of leaving that life for a government school in Indiana.
Many of their works -- poems, novels, letters and essays -- have lasted more than a hundred years and show today's young readers how each woman's writing was shaped by life in the nineteenth-century American West.« less