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

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

by Dee Garceau (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 18 Feb 2013

ISBN 10: 0803243480
ISBN 13: 9780803243484