The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929 (Women in the West)

by Dee Garceau (Author)

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  Paperback
  2013

  $19.16

  Examines women's work and family lives in Sweetwater County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, demonstrating how survival on the ranching and mining frontier heightened the value of group cooperation in ways that bred conservative attitudes toward gender.