Tandem Lives: The Frontier Texas Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree, 1856-1884

by Amy L. Wink

The mythology of the frontier Texas woman portrays her as fiercely independent, strong willed, and adventurous. This eye-opening book, however, offers a far more complex and intimate version of women's cultural experiences in mid-nineteenth-century Texas by publishing, for the first time, the diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree.

Henrietta and Tennessee were the sequential wives of Dr. John W. Embree of Belton, Texas,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572335041
• ISBN13: 9781572335042
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"