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Series Introduction Scott C. Zeman xi
Preface xv
Maps xxi
Finding "Her Story" in the American West 1
Buffalo Bill, Frederick Jackson Turner, and the Male Frontier 2
New West, Old West, and the Women's West 6
The Literary Critique 10
Her Story and the Scholarship of Gender 11
The Multicultural Women's West 12
Getting to the Source of Her Story 14
Conclusion 25
Bibliographic Essay 26
Visible in Everything, but Invisible to History: Native American Women in the North American West 33
The Problem with Native American History 35
Counting the Invisible 37
Telling History 40
Sacagawea's West 42
Women of the Great Plains 46
Women of the Fur Trade 50
The Custom of the Country 52
Conclusion 58
Bibliographic Essay 58
Women of the Southern Borderlands, 1600-1846 65
An Extensive Borderland 65
Ancient Women of the Southern Borderlands 67
The Hohokam 69
The AncientPuebloan (Anasazi) 70
Pueblo Women of the Southwest 72
Women in Spanish New Mexico 74
Gender in Spanish California 82
Women's Resistance 84
Disease and Survival 88
Conclusion 92
Bibliographic Essay 93
Gender and Manifest Destiny, 1830-1870 99
Gender, Jeffersonian Ideology, and Manifest Destiny 102
Sentimental Domesticity 104
Manifest Domesticity and Texas 107
"Civilizing" Native Texas 114
White Women and the Acquisition of the Oregon Country 117
Women on Western Trails 126
Conclusion 132
Bibliographic Essay 134
Polygamy, Prostitution, and Women in Mormon and Mining Settlements, 1840-1890 141
Mormon Migration 147
The Mormon Trail 150
Slavery and Race in Mormon Country 151
Women, Power, and Polygamy 153
Rush Towns and Society 159
Keeping House, Selling Sex, and Defining Home 160
Native Women and Commerce in Mining Towns 169
Aftermath of the Bear River Massacre 172
Bibliographic Essay 173
The "New Woman," Mobility, and Western Space, 1877-1920 179
Introduction 179
Reform and the Indian Question 183
Suffrage 191
Technology 193
Labor and Immigration 198
Tourism, Leisure, and the Modern House 206
Conclusion 211
Bibliographic Essay 212
War, Depression, and the Creation of the West, 1914-1940 219
Introduction 219
Influenza and Disease 220
Health, Tourism, and the Plague 222
Gender, Women's Labor, and Western Tourism 224
Creating the West 233
Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, Racism, and the WKKK 238
Depression on the Plains and Prairies 243
Women's Labor Organizations 251
Conclusion 254
Bibliographic Essay 255
The Gendered Wartime and Postwar West, 1941-1980 263
Work and World War II 264
War Brides 268
Japanese Internment Camps 270
The Postwar West 280
Labor Activism 282
Freeways, Babies, and Boom 284
The Nuclear West 290
Politics of Conservatism 294
Mobility, Activism, and Home 298
Conclusion 305
Bibliographic Essay 305
Late Trends and New Directions 313
Definitions 316
Demographic Shifts 319
New Directions 321
Bibliographic Essay 326
Chronology 329
Glossary 337
Index 353
About the Author 387
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