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A Promise Fulfilled

A Promise Fulfilled

The Kitty Anderson Diary and Civil War Texas, 1861

Edited by Nancy Draves

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9781682830031

Pub Date: October 2017

In 2008, Texas historian Nancy Draves happened upon an amazing find up for public auction: the 1861 diary of Kitty Anderson, the daughter of prominent San Antonio resident and vocal Union Army supporter...
Their Lives, Their Wills

Their Lives, Their Wills

Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846

by Amy M. Porter

Foreword by Nancy E. Baker

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780896729322

Pub Date: June 2015

In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de Béxar, a dying widow named María Concepción de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. Estrada used her will to record her debts and credits,...
Quite Contrary

Quite Contrary

The Litigious Life of Mary Bennett Love

by David J. Langum Sr.

Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780896728745

Pub Date: May 2014

Mary Bennett Love had a physicality exceeded only by her personality. Six feet tall and over 300 pounds, Love was anything but shackled by the mores of her day. In the 1840s, she moved west from Arkansas...
Divinely Guided

Divinely Guided

The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association

by Valerie Sherer Mathes

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780896727458

Pub Date: April 2012

Founded in Philadelphia in 1879, the Women’s National Indian Association devoted seventy years to working among Native women. Bucking society’s narrow sense of women’s appropriate sphere, WNIA members across the U.S. built Indian homes, missionary cottages, schools, and chapels; supported government teachers and field matrons; and funded physicians—all with a strong dose of Christianity. Though goals of forced assimilation were as unrealistic as they were unsuccessful, WNIA’s contributions to the welfare of Native women were hardly insignificant, especially in California. In the north, they worked at the Round Valley and Hoopa Reservations and realized their most unusual undertaking—the funding of the Greenville Indian Industrial School. In the south they worked with the Native mission populations, where cultural similarities and greater proximity fostered unprecedented cooperation among WNIA workers. Amelia Stone Quinton, longtime WNIA president and editor of The Indian’s Friend, provides a consistent narrative thread, as does Helen Hunt Jackson in...
Women on the North American Plains

Women on the North American Plains

Edited by Renee M. Laegreid and Sandra K. Mathews

Foreword by Joan M. Jensen

Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9780896727281

Pub Date: November 2011

The first comprehensive view of women on the North American Plains, these essays explore the richness, variety, and complexity of their experiences. From prehistory to the present, the Great Plains have played a significant role in the lives of women who moved to or across them, cleaving to cultural ideas and patterns while adapting to the rigors of the region. Twelve essays—arranged chronologically within sub-regions—draw upon innovative theoretical and methodological approaches, including gender/transgender studies, decolonization of Native peoples, and the influence of nation states. Richly grounded in the particular, these essays also contextualize the stories of specific women and locales within larger social, political, and economic trends. Individually and collectively, they reveal the intricate relations that tie together people and place. Here are long-needed perspectives on the diverse lives of women who have been—and who continue to be—too often ignored in wider histories of the Plains.
Hers, His, and Theirs

Hers, His, and Theirs

Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas

by Jean A. Stuntz

Foreword by Caroline Crimm

Preface by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780896727175

Pub Date: November 2010

Through court cases and legal documents, Hers, His, and Theirs explores the evolution of Castilian law during the Spanish Reconquest and how those laws came to the New World and Texas. Looking carefully at why the Spanish legal system developed so differently from any other European system and why it survived in Texas even after settlement by Anglos in the 1830s, Jean A. Stuntz discusses what this system of community property offered that English common law did not, and why this aspect of married women’s property rights has not been well studied.
As A Farm Woman Thinks

As A Farm Woman Thinks

Life and Land on the Texas High Plains, 1890–1960

by Nellie Witt Spikes

Edited by Geoff Cunfer

Foreword by Sandra Scofield

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780896727106

Pub Date: October 2010

In twenty-five years of syndicated columns in small-town Texas newspapers between 1930 and 1960, Nellie Witt Spikes described her life on the High Plains, harking back to earlier times and reminiscing about pioneer settlement, farm and small-town culture, women’s work, and the natural history of the flatlands and canyons. Engaging and eloquent, her “As a Farm Woman Thinks” columns today conjure up a vivid portrait of a bygone era. Spikes’s best pieces, selected and arranged by Geoff Cunfer, are illuminated by black-and-white historical photographs featuring people, landscapes, small towns, farms, and ranches that populated the caprock-and-canyon country ofher West Texas. For historians, As a Farm Woman Thinks enlarges our understanding of a wide land and its culture. For the rest of us, Spikes’s “poetry of place” still captures the spirit of the Plains and, decades later, inspires imagination and memory.
A Sweet, Separate Intimacy

A Sweet, Separate Intimacy

Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800–1922

Edited by Susan Cummins Miller

Price: $26.95

ISBN: 9780896726185

Pub Date: December 2007

“In this book are bits and pieces of dreams, lives, experiences, and vistas, like squares cut from old cloth and assembled into a crazy quilt of writing styles and forms. The patchwork design mirrors both the complexity of the chroniclers and the stark lines and angles of the American frontier.” —Susan Cummins Miller, from the introduction In this anthology of thirty-four writers who published during the settlement years of the American frontier, Miller assembles nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and occasional writings from women of Anglo, Chinese, Hispanic, and Native American ethnicity. Variously addressing such themes as isolation, drudgery, friendship, mourning, and even mysticism, these writers offer up a different frontier, one that focuses on women’s experiences as much as men’s. In brief biographical and historical introductions to each writer, Miller shares insights and context as engaging as the selections themselves.
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