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

Author: Virginia Scharff
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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. In this book Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of U.S. history -- our restless, relentless westward movement -- but she sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth to  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Virginia Scharff
ISBN: 0520212126 9780520212121 0520237773 9780520237773
OCLC Number: 50279905
Description: xi, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Virginia Scharff.
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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. In this book Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of U.S. history -- our restless, relentless westward movement -- but she sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Her spirited stories weave a lyrical reconsideration of the processes that created, gave meaning to, and ultimately shattered the West.

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