Domesticating the West : the re-creation of the nineteenth-century American middle class /

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"In 1881 Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt said a final good-bye to Massachusetts and the eastern seaboard and set out in search not of land but of opportunities for social and political advancement. Facing severe limitations to their goals in the depressed and disheveled postwar East, the Tannatts...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jackson, Brenda K.
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005.
Series:Women in the West.
Subjects:
Tannatt, Thomas, > 1833-1913.
Tannatt, Elizabeth F. > (Elizabeth Forster), > 1837-1920.
Tannatt, Elizabeth F. > (Elizabeth Forster), > 1837-1920
Tannatt, Thomas, > 1833-1913
1800-1899
Pioneers > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Middle class > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Community life > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
HISTORY > State & Local.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Community life
Frontier and pioneer life
Manners and customs
Middle class
Pioneers
Social conditions
Mittelstand
Soziale Situation
West (U.S.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
West (U.S.) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Inland Empire (Pacific Northwest) > History > 19th century.
Inland Empire (Pacific Northwest) > Biography.
Inland Empire (Nord-Ouest) > Biographies.
Inland Empire (Nord-Ouest) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
United States > Inland Empire
West United States
USA > Weststaaten
Frontier
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The early years, 1833-1861
  • The Civil War, 1861-1864
  • The aftermath of war, 1864-1876
  • Henry Villard and transportation in the Pacific Northwest, 1876-1882
  • Inland Empire "pioneers," 1880-1890
  • Retirement and reflections on the past, 1890-1920.

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