03414nam 2200721 a 450 991045413580332120200520144314.01-58729-730-2(CKB)1000000000575955(EBL)843201(OCoLC)609443834(SSID)ssj0000275396(PQKBManifestationID)11954791(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000275396(PQKBWorkID)10344234(PQKB)10358063(MiAaPQ)EBC843201(MdBmJHUP)muse9230(Au-PeEL)EBL843201(CaPaEBR)ebr10354443(EXLCZ)99100000000057595520060414d2006 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrWriting the trail[electronic resource] five women's frontier narratives /Deborah LawrenceIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20061 online resource (171 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-509-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-154) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Susan Shelby Magoffin: A Wandering Princess on the Santa Fe Trail; Sarah Bayliss Royce: A Narrative of Frontier Housekeeping; Louise Smith Clappe: A Feminine View of the Elephant; Eliza Burhans Farnham: At Home in the California Wilderness; Lydia Spencer Lane: The Tender Recollections of an Old Soldier; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexFor a long time, the American West was mainly identified with white masculinity, but as more women's narratives of westward expansion came to light, scholars revised purely patriarchal interpretations. Writing the Trail continues in this vein by providing a comparative literary analysis of five frontier narratives---Susan Magoffin's Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico, Sarah Royce's A Frontier Lady, Louise Clappe's The Shirley Letters, Eliza Farnham's California, In-doors and Out, and Lydia Spencer Lane's I Married a Soldier---to explore the ways in which women's responses to the western eFrontier and pioneer lifeWest (U.S.)SourcesWomen pioneersWest (U.S.)BiographyFrontier and pioneer life in literatureFirst person narrativeHistory and criticismAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomenWest (U.S.)History19th centurySourcesSex role in literatureSex roleWest (U.S.)History19th centurySourcesWest (U.S.)History1848-1860SourcesWest (U.S.)History1860-1890SourcesElectronic books.Frontier and pioneer lifeWomen pioneersFrontier and pioneer life in literature.First person narrativeHistory and criticism.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.WomenHistorySex role in literature.Sex roleHistory978Lawrence Deborah897621MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454135803321Writing the trail2005441UNINA