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During the last half of the nineteenth century, thousands of men went west in search of gold, land, or adventure-leaving their wives to handle family, farm, and business affairs on their own. The experiences of these westering men have long been a part of the lore of the American frontier, but the stories of their wives have rarely been told. Ten years of research into public and private documents-including letters of couples separated during the westward movement-has enabled Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith to tell the forgotten stories of women in waiting.Though these wives were left more or less in limbo by the departure of their adventuring husbands, they were hardly women in waiting in any other sense. Children had to be fed, clothed, housed, and educated; farms and businesses had to be managed; creditors had to be paid or pacified and, in some cases, hard-earned butter-and-egg money had to be sent west in response to letters from broke and disillusioned husbands.This raises some unsettling questions: How does the idea of an allowance from home square with our long-standing image of the frontiersman as rugged individualist? To what extent was the westward movement supported by the paid and unpaid labor of women back east? And how do we measure the heroics of husbands out west against the heroics of wives back home?

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title:Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement : Life On the Home Frontier
author:Peavy, Linda S.; Smith, Ursula.
publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin:0806126191
print isbn13:9780806126197
ebook isbn13:9780585100920
language:English
subjectPioneers' spouses--United States--History--19th century, Women--United States--History--19th century, Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)--History, United States--Territorial expansion.
publication date:1994
lcc:F596.P43 1994eb
ddc:973.8/082
subject:Pioneers' spouses--United States--History--19th century, Women--United States--History--19th century, Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)--History, United States--Territorial expansion.
Page iii
Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement
Life on the Home Frontier
By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
Foreword by John Mack Faragher
University of Oklahoma Press : Norman and London
Page iv
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Peavy, Linda S.
Women in waiting in the westward movement : life on the home
frontier / by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith ; foreword by John Mack
Faragher.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8061-2616-7 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-8061-2619-1 (pbk. :
alk. paper)
1. Pioneers' spousesUnited StatesHistory19th century.
2. WomenUnited StatesHistory19th century. 3. Frontier and
pioneer lifeWest (U.S.) 4. West (U.S.)History. 5. United
StatesTerritorial expansion. I. Title.
F596.P43 1994
973.8082dc20Picture 2Picture 3Picture 4Picture 593-38832
Picture 6Picture 7Picture 8Picture 9Picture 10Picture 11CIP
Text design by Cathy Carney Imboden.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Picture 12
Copyright 1994 by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith. Published by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Contents
Foreword
John Mack Faragher
ix
Preface
xiii
I
Families in Flux
Picture 13
The Dynamics of Separation in the Westward Movement
3
II
Abiah Warren Huller
Picture 14
"I Suppose It Is Just in the Edge of the Evening Where You Are"
43
III
Almira Fay Stearns
Picture 15
"The Thought of Another Six or Eight Months Absence Makes Me Sad"
89
IV
Sarah Burgert Yesler
Picture 16
"I Will Endeavour to Look upon the Bright Side"
132
V
Harriet Burr Godfrey
Picture 17
"Gold or No Gold, Come Home, We Cannot Spare You Longer"
179

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VI
Emma Stratton Christie
Picture 18
"If We Only Had a Place of Ourn and You Was with Us"
211
VII
Augusta Perham Shipman
Picture 19
"Do Have Your Visit or Exploration or Whatever You Call It and Come Back"
237
Notes
283
Index
365

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