Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey - Hardcover
Using excerpts from diaries, letters, and reminiscences, this study focuses on the experiences of three families who sought new lives in the nineteenth-century American West.
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at the human cost of the cross continental trek. Using letters and diaries, the author pieces together the sagas of 3 families of the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries who ventured West.
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Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn College–CUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western Women's Reader (with Catherine Lavender) and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West. Byrd Gibbens is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia campus, and the author of This Is a Strange Country: Letters of a Western Family 1880-1906.Elizabeth Hampsten is a professor of English at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and the author of Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains.
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- PublisherSchocken
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0805240527
- ISBN 13 9780805240528
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages264
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