Women and men on the overland trail

Description:

"This book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis. There is also a new supplemental bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: History,  Overland journeys to the Pacific,  Internal Migration,  Family,  Sex role,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Women,  Families,  Emigration et immigration,  Histoire,  The West,  Voyages par terre jusqu'au Pacifique,  19th century,  Siedlung,  Femmes,  Famille,  Vie des pionniers,  Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.),  Pioneers,  Description and travel,  Travel

Places: United States,  West (U.S.),  West,The

Times: 19th century