Domesticating the West: The Re-Creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class

by Brenda K. Jackson

Book Overview

In 1881 Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt said a final good-bye to Massachusetts and the eastern seaboard and set out in search not of land but of opportunities for social and political advancement. Facing severe limitations to their goals in the depressed and disheveled postwar East, the Tannatts went west to Walla Walla, Washington Territory, to pursue their dreams of influence and status. Domesticating the West examines the motivations of late-nineteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803220758
• ISBN13: 9780803220751
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"