04028nam 2200793 a 450 991097393220332120200520144314.097866123596689780520937031052093703197814175253621417525363978128235966612823596659781597349697159734969010.1525/9780520937031(CKB)1000000000008136(EBL)223632(OCoLC)475928590(SSID)ssj0000263117(PQKBManifestationID)11217385(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000263117(PQKBWorkID)10274057(PQKB)11044562(DE-B1597)518927(OCoLC)1114890161(DE-B1597)9780520937031(Au-PeEL)EBL223632(CaPaEBR)ebr10062278(CaONFJC)MIL235966(MiAaPQ)EBC223632(Perlego)2319370(EXLCZ)99100000000000813620020716d2003 ub 0enguruz#---|u||utxtccrTwenty thousand roads women, movement, and the West /Virginia Scharff1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20031 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780520212121 0520212126 9780520237773 0520237773 Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-228) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --INTRODUCTION --PART ONE: BEFORE THE WEST --PART TWO: IN THE WEST --PART THREE: BEYOND THE WEST --NOTES --ILLUSTRATIONS --INDEXFrom Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history-our restless, relentless westward movement--but sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. In colorful, spirited stories, she weaves a lyrical reconsideration of the processes that created, gave meaning to, and ultimately shattered the West. Twenty Thousand Roads introduces a cast of women mapping the world on their own terms, often crossing political and cultural boundaries defined by male-dominated institutions and perceptions. Scharff examines the faint traces left by Sacagawea and revisits Susan Magoffin's famed honeymoon journey down the Santa Fe Trail. We also meet educated women like historian Grace Hebard and government extension agent Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, who mapped the West with different voyages and visions. Scharff introduces women whose lives gave shape to the forces of gender, race, region, and modernity; participants in exploration, war, politics, empire, and struggles for social justice; and movers and shakers of everyday family life. This book powerfully and poetically shows us that to understand the American West, we must examine the lives of women who both built and resisted American expansion. Scharff remaps western history as she reveals how moving women have shaped our past, present, and future.Women pioneersWest (U.S.)BiographyWomenWest (U.S.)BiographyFrontier and pioneer lifeWest (U.S.)West (U.S.)BiographyWest (U.S.)HistoryWomen pioneersWomenFrontier and pioneer life978/.02/082Scharff Virginia1810700MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973932203321Twenty thousand roads4362128UNINA