Plains Women: Two Accounts of American Women on the Western Frontier---I Married a Soldier or Old Days in the Old Army & Across the

by Lodisa Frizzell and Lydia Spencer Lane

Book Overview

The accounts of two women of the West in the 1850s

The Great Plains evoke the very essence of the wild American frontier. In reality, beyond the 'settled and civilised' eastern seaboard lay a great wilderness-a barrier to be traversed if the 'Manifest Destiny' of the American people to populate the entire North American continent was to come to fruition. During the nineteenth century many men and women embarked upon this perilous endeavour...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085706200X
• ISBN13: 9780857062000
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"