Twenty thousand roads : women, movement, and the West /
From Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history--our restless,...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2003.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp2n6 |
| Sumari: | From Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history--our restless, relentless westward movement--but sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-228) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520937031 0520937031 1417525363 9781417525362 9780520212121 9780520237773 1282359665 9781282359666 1597349690 9781597349697 9786612359668 6612359668 0520212126 0520237773 |