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Author Burnett, Robyn.

Title Immigrant women in the settlement of Missouri / Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering
Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 149 pages) : illustrations
Series Missouri heritage readers
Missouri heritage readers.
Contents 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
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Subject Women pioneers -- Missouri -- History
Women immigrants -- Missouri -- History
Women pioneers -- Missouri -- Biography
Women immigrants -- Missouri -- Biography
Pioneers -- Missouri -- History
Immigrants -- Missouri -- History
Frontier and pioneer life -- Missouri
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Frontier and pioneer life
Immigrants
Manners and customs
Pioneers
Women immigrants
Women pioneers
Einwanderin
SUBJECT Missouri -- Social life and customs
Missouri -- Biography
Missouri -- Social life and customs -- Sources
Subject Missouri
Missouri Staat
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Sources
Biographies.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Luebbering, Ken, 1946-
ISBN 0826264778
9780826264770