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New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story
Bottom of the pile
11
/100
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Readers
4/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Winifred Gallagher
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
July 20, 2021
A history of the American West told for the first time through the pioneering women who used the challenges of migration and settlement as opportunities to advocate for their rights, and transformed the country in the process.
What The Reviewers Say
New Women in the Old West is really two books deftly stitched together. It is a brisk history of the galvanizing role played by Western women in the national struggle for suffrage. It is also a kind of group portrait of the independent, resourceful women who managed to forge places for themselves in a man’s world. Ms. Gallagher tells her story through a sometimes dizzying array of mini-biographies of dozens of women.
Gallagher’s comprehensive New Women in the Old West unearths this story through the lives of dozens of forgotten trailblazers.
This upbeat account abounds with brief stories of trailblazers.
Gallagher delivers a buoyant women’s history of the American West.
