{"product_id":"brave-hearted-the-women-of-the-american-west","title":"Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West","description":"\u003cp\u003eHickman, Katie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbsolutely compelling\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e― Christina Lamb, \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e (UK)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe dramatic, untold stories of the diverse array of women who helped transform the American West.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes, “Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and - like the wiry grass - seem as difficult to weed out and discard.” But the true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is more gripping, heart-rending, and stirring than all the movies, novels, folk-legends, and ballads of popular imagination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives and mothers traveling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys, some of them so poor they walked the entire route; African-American women in search of freedom from slavery; Chinese sex-workers sold openly on the docks of San Francisco; Native American women brutally displaced by the unstoppable tide of white settlers -- all were women forced to draw on huge reserves of resilience\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand courage in the face of tumultuous change.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing on letters, diaries, and other extraordinary contemporary accounts, sifting through the legends and the myths, the laws and the treaties, Katie Hickman presents us with cast of unforgettable women: the half Cree, Marguerite McLoughlin, the much-admired “First Lady” of Fort Vancouver; the Presbyterian missionary Narcissa Whitman, who in 1837 became the first white woman to make the overland journey west across the Rocky Mountains; Biddy Mason, the Mississippi slave who fought for her freedom through the courts of California; Olive Oatman, adopted by the Mohave, famous for her facial tattoos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the story of the women who participated in the greatest mass migration in American history, transforming their country in the process\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is American history, not as it was romanticized, but as it was lived.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spiegel \u0026 Grau","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43769982288105,"sku":"9781954118171","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/products\/9781954118171_e9938.jpg?v=1665172632","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/brave-hearted-the-women-of-the-american-west","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}