Frontier Women Civilizing the West 1840-1880 [Paperback]

In this new edition of a classic work, Julie Roy Jeffrey maintains the essential core of her account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions women made to the development of the American frontier. Jeffrey has expanded her original analysis to include the often overlooked perspectives of Native American, Hispanic, Chinese, and African American women.

Julie Roy Jeffrey, professor of history at Goucher College, is the author ofConverting the West: A Biography of Narcissa WhitmanandEducation for Children of the Poor. She lives in Maryland

The modern study of western women began with Jeffrey's pathbreaking book. John Mack Faragher, Yale University

Thorough and informative . . . Frontier Women bears out [Frederick Jackson Tur-ner's] prophecy of the old frontier's ability continually to shape and be reshaped by the American imagination. Megan Marshall, The New Republic