Smith, Ursula 1934-

Women in waiting in the westward movement : life on the home frontier by Linda S Peavy( Book )

8 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 1,527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

During the last half of the nineteenth century, thousands of men went west in search of gold, land, or adventure - leaving their wives to handle family, farm, and business affairs on their own. The experiences of these westering men have long been a part of the lore of the American frontier, but the stories of their wives have rarely been told. Ten years of research into public and private documents - including letters of couples separated during the westward movement - has enabled Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith to tell the forgotten stories of "women in waiting." Though these wives were left more or less in limbo by the departure of their adventuring husbands, they were hardly women in waiting in any other sense. Children had to be fed, clothed, housed, and educated; farms and businesses had to be managed; creditors had to be paid or pacified - and, in some cases, hard-earned butter-and-egg money had to be sent west in response to letters from broke and disillusioned husbands. This raises some unsettling questions: How does the idea of an "allowance" from home square with our long-standing image of the frontiersman as rugged individualist? To what extent was the westward movement supported by the paid and unpaid labor of women back east? And how do we measure the heroics of husbands out west against the heroics of wives back home? Based on the experiences of more than fifty women - from Abiah Hiller, whose business sense equaled or excelled her husband's, to Emma Christie, who knew virtually nothing about the matters she was called upon to manage - Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement offers a rare glimpse into life on the home frontier and provides new insights into fairly common, though poorly documented, aspect of the history of the settling of the American West

Frontier children by Linda S Peavy( Book )

4 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 1,284 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Frontier Children combines a wide ranging historical description with a stunning collectionof images. The subjects are characters who have been neglected in the standard treatment of the frontier West

Pioneer women : the lives of women on the frontier by Linda S Peavy( Book )

5 editions published in 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,078 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A rare look at frontier life through the eyes of the pioneer women who settled the American West. The hardships they endured and the making of homes and communities are vividly described. Included are Native American women, as well as Calamity Jane and Carry Nation

Pioneer women : the lives of women on the frontier by Linda S Peavy( Book )

6 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 912 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Documents the day to day experiences of frontier life through the eyes of pioneer women who settled in the American West, enduring hardships, deprivation, and violence, and showing courage and strength in their attempts to organize homes and communities in the wilderness

Full-court quest : the girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, basketball champions of the world by Linda S Peavy( Book )

4 editions published between 2008 and 2014 in English and held by 683 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Presents an account of the women's basketball team that won the world championship at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, covering the players' lifes on reservations and farms and at boarding school, where, separated from their Native American cultures, they worked together to achieve victory

Women who changed things by Linda S Peavy( Book )

3 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 535 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Presents biographies of nine women active between 1880 and 1930 who made outstanding contributions in the fields of medicine, religion, politics, business, arts and letters, education, athletics, and social action

Dreams into deeds : nine women who dared by Linda S Peavy( Book )

1 edition published in 1985 in English and held by 490 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recounts the lives of nine determined women whose achievements helped reshape the world

The Gold Rush widows of Little Falls : a story drawn from the letters of Pamelia and James Fergus by Linda S Peavy( Book )

2 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 401 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

James went to the goldfields in Colorado and Montana and carried on correspondence with his wife, Pamelia in Little Falls, Minnesota

Frontier house by Simon Shaw( Book )

2 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 388 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Follows three families as they recreate the lives of Western homesteaders

Food, nutrition & you by Linda S Peavy( Book )

2 editions published in 1982 in English and held by 315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Relates how the body uses carbohydrates, vitamins, and other nutrients. Also discussed food additives, sports nutrition, and other related topics