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Women in the Texas Populist Movement : Letters to the Southern Mercury Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; No. 67
NUMBER SIXTY-SEVEN: The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University
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Women in the Texas Populist Movement
Letters to the Southern Mercury
Edited with an Introduction By Marion K. Barthelme
Foreword by John Boles
Texas A & M University Press College Station
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Copyright 1997 by Marion K. Barthelme Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First edition
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Title page photo: Populist party convention, Austin, Tex., 1896. Courtesy The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Women in the Texas populist movement : letters to the Southern mercury / edited by Marion K. Barthelme ; foreword by John Boles. 1st ed. p. cm. (Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 67) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-89096-742-3 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 0-89096-775-X (pbk. : alk. paper) I. TexasPolitics and government18651950Sources. 2. Rural womenTexasCorrespondence. 3. Rural womenTexasPolitical activityHistory19th centurySources. 4. Rural womenTexas Economic conditionsSources. 5. PopulismTexasHistory 19th centurySources. 6. Land reformTexasHistory19th century Sources. I. Barthelme, Marion K. (Marion Knox), 1944 . II. Southern mercury (Dallas, Tex. : 1891) III. Series. F391.W8 1997 976.4061082dc21 96-53089 CIP
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For Katharine, Anna, and Donald
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
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Foreword by John Boles
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Acknowledgments
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Part I: Introduction by Marion K. Barthelme
3
Part II: Letters to the Southern Mercury
79
Bibliography
241
Index
245
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ILLUSTRATIONS
First meeting of Alliance
81
Bettie Gay
119
Milking time
126
Family picking cotton
159
Women hoeing cotton
201
Fetching water
208
First reaper in Potter County
227
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FOREWORD
John Boles
Much of the most exciting work being done today in southern history involves recovering the experience of women. Of course, even the history of southern men is being transformed through the gendered analysis that presently is being employed to reveal complexities of causation unsuspected before now. But I write here of the effort to discover and reveal the lives, thoughts, and voices of southern womenand not just members of the articulate elite heretofore dominant in historical accounts.
As we learn more about women and their roles in the past, we are forced to acknowledge that their experience cannot be confined to traditionally "feminine" topics. Southern women could not vote anywhere in the South, but this does not mean that they were ignorant of the political issues of the day or the impact of political and economic structures on their lives. Marion Barthelme here escorts us into the world of white Texas farm women at the end of the nineteenth century. After a perceptive introduction that establishes the historical context, she lets the women speak in their own words through their letters to a Texas Populist newspaper, the
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