The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929

by Dee Garceau

Book Overview

Sweetwater County lies in southwestern Wyoming, and has stood as a significant symbolic geography for the "new Western Woman's" history. As the county in which Elinore Pruitt Stewart (Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Nebraska 1990) said she proved up her homestead in 1913, it is a fitting locale for the study of western gender relations. The Important Things of Life examines women's work and family lives in Sweetwater County in the late...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803243480
• ISBN13: 9780803243484
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"