The important things of life : women, work, and family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929 /

The Important Things of Life examines women's work and family lives in Sweetwater County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The discovery of coal in the 1880s caused a population boom, attracting immigrants from numerous ethnic groups. At the same time, liberalized homestead...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garceau-Hagen, Dee, 1955-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1997.
Colección:Women in the West.
Temas:
Women pioneers > Wyoming > Sweetwater County > Social conditions.
Women pioneers > Wyoming > Sweetwater County > Social life and customs.
Frontier and pioneer life > Wyoming > Sweetwater County.
Sex role > Wyoming > Sweetwater County > History.
Families > Wyoming > Sweetwater County.
Pionnières > Wyoming > Sweetwater > Conditions sociales.
Pionnières > Wyoming > Sweetwater > Mœurs et coutumes.
Rôle selon le sexe > Wyoming > Sweetwater > Histoire.
Familles > Wyoming > Sweetwater.
HISTORY > State & Local.
Families
Frontier and pioneer life
Manners and customs
Sex role
Social conditions
Women pioneers > Social conditions
Women pioneers > Social life and customs
Vrouwen.
Gezin.
Vrouwenarbeid.
United States Local History.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Sweetwater County (Wyo.) > Social conditions.
Sweetwater County (Wyo.) > Social life and customs.
Wyoming > Sweetwater County
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sweetwater County: desert highway, company town, cowboy west
  • Family networks: a web of support
  • "I got a girl here, would you like to meet her?": courtship, ethnicity, and community
  • "My wife just doesn't like it here and I'm going to let her go back": marriage and patriarchal authority in transition
  • Group partnership and cowboy myth: the gendering of ranch work
  • Single women homesteaders and the meanings of independence: places on the map, places in the mind
  • From Klenickso to main street: town women's work
  • "Grasping at the shadow": the paradox of change.

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