Data Portal @ linkeddatafragments.org

Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/002507044/catalog> ?p ?o. }

• catalog abstract "The popular image of the settling of the American West has primarily been of cowboys, soldiers, miners, and trappers--the white men. In Homesteading Women: An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950 Julie Jones-Eddy brings to light the reality of the frontier through the oral testimonies of some of the women whose strength and perseverance were essential to the establishment of families, farms, and communities in the West. Homesteading Women is a compilation of Jones-Eddy's interviews with 47 women between the ages of 55 and 95--some married, some mothers, some employed, but all survivors of the rigors of homesteading in a demanding and, at times, hostile environment. The interviewees vividly recall frontier attitudes toward childhood, marriage, pregnancy and birth, work, health care, daily life, and death. Some of the women worked in the home, while others had roles in the fields alongside the men in addition to their domestic duties. Maintaining the home--whether it be a tent, a dugout, or a log cabin--was strenuous work, as the women had to cope with cold, altitude, and isolation, haul fuel and water, tend livestock, make preserves, soap, lard, and clothes, and generate cash with their "butter and egg" money. Outside the home, traditional gender lines were often blurred as women performed arduous tasks in caring for farm animals and working the land. Jones-Eddy provides many of her questions along with the interviewees' answers, thereby preserving the dialogue that elicited their responses. The result is an especially warm and personal account of an era and a way of life now gone by. Homesteading Women includes a chapter by Professor Elizabeth Jameson, coeditor of The Women's West. Jameson places the oral testimonies within a greater historical context and highlights the significant contribution these women made not only to their communities but to women's history in general.".
• catalog contributor b3623608.
• catalog coverage "Colorado Biography.".
• catalog coverage "Colorado Social life and customs.".
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description "Introduction: The Land in Which They Lived -- 1. Starting a New Life -- 2. Home and Family -- 3. Children's Lives -- 4. Marriage, Pregnancy, and Childbirth -- 5. Community -- 6. Medical Care -- 7. Working Women -- 8. Looking Back -- Afterword: A New Historical Territory.".
• catalog description "The popular image of the settling of the American West has primarily been of cowboys, soldiers, miners, and trappers--the white men. In Homesteading Women: An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950 Julie Jones-Eddy brings to light the reality of the frontier through the oral testimonies of some of the women whose strength and perseverance were essential to the establishment of families, farms, and communities in the West. Homesteading Women is a compilation of Jones-Eddy's interviews with 47 women between the ages of 55 and 95--some married, some mothers, some employed, but all survivors of the rigors of homesteading in a demanding and, at times, hostile environment. The interviewees vividly recall frontier attitudes toward childhood, marriage, pregnancy and birth, work, health care, daily life, and death. Some of the women worked in the home, while others had roles in the fields alongside the men in addition to their domestic duties. Maintaining the home--whether it be a tent, a dugout, or a log cabin--was strenuous work, as the women had to cope with cold, altitude, and isolation, haul fuel and water, tend livestock, make preserves, soap, lard, and clothes, and generate cash with their "butter and egg" money. Outside the home, traditional gender lines were often blurred as women performed arduous tasks in caring for farm animals and working the land. Jones-Eddy provides many of her questions along with the interviewees' answers, thereby preserving the dialogue that elicited their responses. The result is an especially warm and personal account of an era and a way of life now gone by. Homesteading Women includes a chapter by Professor Elizabeth Jameson, coeditor of The Women's West. Jameson places the oral testimonies within a greater historical context and highlights the significant contribution these women made not only to their communities but to women's history in general.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 252 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0805791035 :".
• catalog isPartOf "Twayne's oral history series ; no. 7".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International,".
• catalog spatial "Colorado Biography.".
• catalog spatial "Colorado Social life and customs.".
• catalog spatial "Colorado".
• catalog spatial "Colorado.".
• catalog subject "978.8/0088042 20".
• catalog subject "F781 .J84 1992".
• catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Colorado.".
• catalog subject "Oral history.".
• catalog subject "Women pioneers Colorado Interviews.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Land in Which They Lived -- 1. Starting a New Life -- 2. Home and Family -- 3. Children's Lives -- 4. Marriage, Pregnancy, and Childbirth -- 5. Community -- 6. Medical Care -- 7. Working Women -- 8. Looking Back -- Afterword: A New Historical Territory.".
• catalog title "Homesteading women : an oral history of Colorado, 1890-1950 / Julie Jones-Eddy.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "Interviews. fast".
• catalog type "text".