The Montana frontier : one woman's West / Joyce Litz.
Taken from the journals of a Victorian-era woman who followed her husband from New York to a small town in Montana, these reflections include birth control and child rearing, gambling and prostitution, education and health care in the Mountain West.
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full text (Emerson users only) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2004.
|
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; 1: The Pedestrian; 2: From Connecticut to London; 3: Paris Interlude; 4: In Old New York; 5: Out and About; 6: The Female Condition; 7: In Search Of . . .; 8: A Pause for Consideration; 9: Resolution; 10: After Marriage Arrives a Reaction; 11: A Rude Awakening; 12: The Road to Gilt Edge; 13: Far from the Madding Crowd; 14: Gilt Edge: A Law Unto Itself; 15: The Bewitching Mrs. Gay; 16: End of the Jawbone Line; 17: A Wish for Bliss without Alloy; 18: A Question of Attitude; 19: Urban Life; 20: No Ordinary Sight; 21: Through a Glass Darkly.
- 22: New Beginnings23: Starting a Ranch from Scratch; 24: Life Is as Water; 25: Riding the Range; 26: Neighboring in Lonesome Places; 27: More Than Pets; 28: A Day in the Life of an Idle Ranch Woman; 29: And the Earth ... Shall Be Iron; 30: No Turning Back; 31: A Bit of Sustenance; 32: Never a Winning Hand; Afterword: Darkness Lowers; Back Cover.