The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West
The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West
English | July 16, 2019 | ASIN: B07TVV95WX | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 14m | 266.87 MB
Author: Dee Brown
Narrator: Pam Ward
Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether it’s the lone hero on horseback or crowds of card players in a rough-and-tumble saloon. But the taming of the frontier involved plenty of women, too – and this book tells their stories.
At first, female pioneers were indeed rare – when the town of Denver was founded in 1859, there were only five women among a population of almost a thousand. But the adventurers arrived, slowly but surely. There was Frances Grummond, a sheltered Southern girl who married a Yankee and traveled with him out west, only to lose him in a massacre. Esther Morris, a dignified middle-aged lady, held a tea party in South Pass City, Wyoming, that would play a role in the long, slow battle for women’s suffrage. And young Virginia Reed, only 13, set out for California as part of a group that would become known as the Donner Party.
With tales of notables such as Elizabeth Custer, Carry Nation, and Lola Montez, this social history touches upon many familiar topics – from the early Mormons to the gold rush to the dawn of the railroads – with a new perspective. This enlightening and entertaining book goes beyond characters like Calamity Jane to reveal the true diversity of the great western migration of the 19th century.
