Frontier Women : "Civilizing" the West? 1840-1880 (Revised Edition)

In this new edition of a classic work, Julie Roy Jeffrey maintains the essential core of her account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions women made to the development of the American frontier. Jeffrey has expanded her original analysis to include the often overlooked perspectives of Native American, Hispanic, Chinese, and African American women.

“The modern study of western women began with Jeffrey's pathbreaking book.” —John Mack Faragher, Yale University

“Thorough and informative . . . Frontier Women bears out [Frederick Jackson Tur-ner's] prophecy of the old frontier's ability continually to shape and be reshaped by the American imagination.” —Megan Marshall, The New Republic