- Object ID
Scharff, Virginia, author.
- Title
Home lands how women made the West / Virginia Scharff, Carolyn Brucken.
- Other Title
Homelands
How women made the West
American Progress (reproduction)
- Description
171 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm
- Category
Books and Serials
- Subject
Women--West (U.S.)--History.
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)
Women--West (U.S.)--Social conditions.
- Other Author
Brucken, Carolyn, author.
Autry Museum of the American West. Collection reproduction.
Autry Museum of the American West. Southwest Museum Collection. Collection reproduction.
Missouri History Museum.
Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art.
Palace of the Governors (Santa Fe, N.M.)
New Mexico History Museum.
- Note
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, April 15-September 6, 2010; Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, October 15, 2010-January 15, 2011; Gilcrease Museum of the Americas, Tulsa, February 15-May 15, 2011; and the Palace of the Governors and New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, June 15-September 15, 2011.
”Simpson, imprint in humanities.”
Includes collection reproductions from Autry Museum of the American West (page 35: 2004.73.1; plate 16, following page 134: 2005.16.1; plate 4, following page 134: 2005.31.3; page 37: 2005.31.9; page 126: 2006.1.1; plate 20, following page 134: 2006.20.1; plate 20, following page 134: 2006.20.2; page 66: 2006.25.1; plate 8, following page 134: 2006.26.1; plate 21, following page 134: 2006.39.1; plate 19, following page 134: 2006.39.4; plate 15, following page 134: 2006.4.1; plate 7, following page 134: 2007.2.1; page 116: 2007.53.1; page 130; plate 22, following page 134: 2008.16.1; page 53: 86.2.8; page 43; plate 2, following page 134: 88.127.99.1; page 55: 88.241.1; page 10: 89.120.2; page 61: 89.82.1; page 32: 90.239.1; page 65: 90.244.37; plate 12, following page 134: 92.126.1; plate 14, following page 134: 95.155.1; page 38: 95.38.1)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Home on Earth: women and land in the Rio Arriba -- Wedding chest / María E. Montóya -- Women in motion along the front range -- Front range landscapes / Elliott West -- Waterscapes of Puget Sound -- Japanese American women in the Pacific Northwest / Gail Dubrow.
The storybook history of the American West is a male dominated narrative of drifters, dreamers, hucksters, and heroes, a tale that relegates women, assuming they appear at all, to the distant background. This book upends this view to remember the West as a place of homes and habitations brought into being by the women who lived there. The authors consider history’s long span as they explore the ways in which women encountered and transformed three different archetypal Western landscapes: the Rio Arriba of northern New Mexico, the Front Range of Colorado, and the Puget Sound waterscape. This book, companion volume to the Autry Museum of the American West’s exhibit, is an aggregate of women’s history, the history of the American West, and studies in material culture. While linking each of these places’ peoples to one another over hundreds, even thousands, of years, this work reimagines the West as a setting in which home has been created out of differing notions of dwelling and family and differing concepts of property, community, and history.
- Call Number
HQ 1438 .W45 S337 2010