A wandering princess on the Santa Fe Trail / Susan Shelby Magoffin -- A narrative of frontier housekeeping / Sarah Bayliss Royce -- A feminine view of the elephant / Louise Smith Clappe -- At home in the California wilderness / Eliza Burhans Farnham -- The tender recollecitons of an old soldier / Lydia Spencer Lane
Summary
For a long time, the American West was mainly identified with white masculinity, but as more women's narratives of westward expansion came to light, scholars revised purely patriarchal interpretations. Writing the Trail continues in this vein by providing a comparative literary analysis of five frontier narratives--Susan Magoffin's Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico, Sarah Royce's A Frontier Lady, Louise Clappe's The Shirley Letters, Eliza Farnham's California, In-doors and Out, and Lydia Spencer Lane's I Married a Soldier--to explore the ways in which women's responses to the western e
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index
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