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Twenty thousand roads : women, movement, and the West /

From Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history--our restless,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scharff, Virginia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Women pioneers > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Women > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > Biography.
West (U.S.) > History.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780520937031
0520937031
1417525363
9781417525362
9780520212121
9780520237773
1282359665
9781282359666
1597349690
9781597349697
9786612359668
6612359668
0520212126
0520237773
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Seeking Sacagawea
  • The hearth of darkness: Susan Magoffin on suspect terrain
  • Empire, liberty, and legend: woman suffrage in Wyoming
  • Marking Wyoming: Grace Raymond Hebard and the west as woman's place
  • "So many miles to a person": Fabiola Cabeza de Baca makes New Mexico
  • Resisting arrest: Jo Ann Robinson and the power to move
  • The long strange trip of Pamela des Barres
  • They paved paradise.

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