Immigrant settlement in Missouri -- Women immigrants -- Women in early French villages -- Women in colonial St. Louis -- Journey to Missouri -- Life in early St. Louis -- Immigrant women on the frontier -- German women and the church -- Immigrant women in religious orders -- Women and the civil war -- Immigration after the civil war -- Immigrant farm families -- Town life -- Immigrant neighborhoods in St. Louis -- Women and work in industrializing Missouri -- The first decades of the twentieth century -- Missouri's patchwork quilt
Summary
"Focuses on the lives of immigrant women in Missouri from the colonial period to the Civil War to industrialization. Draws heavily on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of immigrant women from many social classes and ethnic backgrounds and contains photographs and narratives relating to immigrant life"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and index
Notes
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Print version record
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL