Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier
[2024-01-26 11:36:26]
Later in the nineteenth century, thousands of people went west to look for gold, land, adventure - allowing their wives to handle only family, farm, and business. These Westerners' experiences have been part of the legend of the American border for a long time, but the story of their wives is rarely told. Mr. Linda Peaby and Mr. Ursula Smith, through a study of public and private documents over the course of ten years, including a couple letters separated during the shift to the West, forgotten "waiting for a woman" I was able to talk about. These wives are more or less uncertain as to the departure of adventurous husbands, but in other ways they are not waiting women. Children must be fed, dressed, placed and educated, farms and businesses must be managed and creditors must be paid or released. Hard earned butter and egg money. This poses some troublesome problems: How do you compare our long-term image as "strong subsidiary" with the "subsidies" of family squares? In the western region, what is the degree of movement of women who are receiving paid and unpaid labor support to the west? How do we measure the heroism of the western husband and the heroism of their hometown's wife? Based on the experience of more than 50 women - from Abiah Hiller, her business sense is quite good to her husband, or quite nice, she is asked to manage things with little knowledge of Emma Christie. It provides a rare understanding of the family border life and provides new insights into fairly general but incomplete records of the history of settlement in the western United States
Ursula Smith studied at the graduate school at San Francisco State University, was awarded the Ford Foundation scholarship and was taught at the San Francisco School System. Her co-author Linda Peavy began collaborating women's history and biography in Bozeman, Montana. Since then, Peavy and Smith have co-authored 10 books: "Women waiting for women", "Pioneer Women", "Border Children" and "Border House". Smith now lives in Vermont, speaking to the Navy across the country including the Library of Congress and the White House and has made presentations. Together with Peavy, she received the Redd Western Research Independent Research Center Award, the Smithsonian Short-Term Visitor Award, two non-fiction texts in Port Townsend Centrum Washington State, and two Western History Paladin awards.
Western movement is one of the solemn and meaningful parts of American history. In the extension of the US border from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast, the country occupies the vast land of the Midwest. It will be moved to the west along the wilderness and the secluded plains for nearly 300 years. The road to the West is full of difficulties and dangers, but these pioneers continue to move forward and never give up. "Move to the west and grow with the county" has become the famous motto of these settlers. In the past British travelers expressed these border settlers as "a bold, almost racially incompetent man living in a tragic hut". ...... "
In the late 1990s, the United States moved to the west and started living on the border. Some settlers seek adventure. Other people moved to the border to escape the monotony of city life. Regardless of specific reasons, most people move to the "better place" in the west. Many inventions and innovations will help improve the lives of Western settlers. The western movement of the United States also caused a conflict. For various reasons, people in America settled on the west of the Mississippi River. Initially, many Americans were reluctant to move to the west. Early explorers thought countries outside the Mississippi River were not suitable for civilization. Therefore Great Plains is known as "the Great America's Desert". By panic in 1819, Americans first emigrated to the west of the Mississippi River. Many southern farmers are in debt for panic
By 1820, American settlers pioneered many border areas on the west side of the Missi