CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTION | 7 |
| CHAPTER 1 “The Land of My Forefathers”: Native Peoples and Early Hispanic Settlement | 17 |
| CHAPTER 2 “We Are Not Alone on These Bare Plains”: The Mosaic of Westward Migration | 43 |
| CHAPTER 3 “You Will Wonder How I Can Bear It”: Life on the Overland Trail | 71 |
| CHAPTER 4 “She Was a Neat and Efficient Housewife”: Homemaking on the Frontier | 93 |
| CHAPTER 5 “I Was Full of My Duties and My Pleasures”: Making a Life on the Frontier | 113 |
| CHAPTER 6 “I Love to Work with Cattle”: Western Women at Work | 129 |
| CHAPTER 7 “There Was a Spirit of Helpfulness”: Building New Communities | 155 |
| FURTHER READING | 179 |
| INDEX | 186 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Land of Many Hands: Women in the American West.
Contributors: Harriet Sigerman - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1997.
Page number: 5.
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