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Scharff, Virginia, author.

Home lands : how women made the West / Virginia Scharff, Carolyn Brucken.

Los Angeles : Autry National Center of the American West ; Berkeley : in association with University of California Press, [2010]

©2010

171 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 27 cm

The storybook history of the American West is a male dominated narrative of drifters, dreamers, hucksters, and heroes, a tale that relegates women, assuming they appear at all, to the distant background. This book upends this view to remember the West as a place of homes and habitations brought into being by the women who lived there. The authors consider history's long span as they explore the ways in which women encountered and transformed three different archetypal Western landscapes: the Rio Arriba of northern New Mexico, the Front Range of Colorado, and the Puget Sound waterscape. This book, companion volume to the Autry National Center's exhibit, is an aggregate of women's history, the history of the American West, and studies in material culture. While linking each of these places' peoples to one another over hundreds, even thousands, of years, this work reimagines the West as a setting in which home has been created out of differing notions of dwelling and family and differing concepts of property, community, and history.

Women -- West (U.S.) -- History.

Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)

Women -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions.

Brucken, Carolyn, 1966- author.

Autry National Center.

Missouri History Museum.

Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art.

Palace of the Governors (Santa Fe, N.M.)

New Mexico History Museum.

Homelands

How women made the West

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Autry National Center, Los Angeles, April 15-September 6, 2010; Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, October 15, 2010-January 15, 2011; Gilcrease Museum of the Americas, Tulsa, February 15-May 15, 2011; and the Palace of the Governors and New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, June 15-September 15, 2011.

"Simpson, imprint in humanities."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Home on Earth: women and land in the Rio Arriba -- Wedding chest / María E. Montóya -- Women in motion along the front range -- Front range landscapes / Elliott West -- Waterscapes of Puget Sound -- Japanese American women in the Pacific Northwest / Gail Dubrow.

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