Women Of The Red Plain

Author : Susan Kates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806143590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Dirt Women written by Susan Kates and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi-dwelling American Indians, uneducated farmers. When women are pictured at all, they seem frozen in time: as the bonneted pioneer woman stoically enduring hardship or the bedraggled, gaunt-faced mother familiar from Dust Bowl photographs. In Red Dirt Women, Susan Kates challenges these one-dimensional characterizations by exploring--and celebrating--the lives of contemporary Oklahoma women whose experiences are anything but predictable. In essays both intensely personal and universal, Red Dirt Women reveals the author's own heartaches and joys in becoming a parent through adoption, her love of regional treasures found in "junk" stores, and her deep appreciation of Miss Dorrie, her son's unconventional preschool teacher. Through lively profiles, interviews, and sketches, we come to know pioneer queens from the Panhandle, rodeo riders, casino gamblers, roller-derby skaters, and the "Lady of Jade"--a former "boat person" from Vietnam who now owns a successful business in Oklahoma City. As she illuminates the lives of these memorable Oklahoma women, Kates traces her own journey to Oklahoma with clarity and insight. Born and raised in Ohio, she confesses an initial apprehension about her adopted home, admitting that she felt "vulnerable on the open lands." Yet her original unease develops into a deep affection for the landscape, history, culture, and people of Oklahoma. The women we meet in Red Dirt Women are not politicians, governors' wives, or celebrities--they are women of all ages and backgrounds who surround us every day and who are as diverse as Oklahoma itself.

Author : Lesley Poling-Kempes
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816524947
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ladies of the Canyons written by Lesley Poling-Kempes and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of a group of remarkable women whose lives were transformed by the people and landscape of the American Southwest in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Author : Sandra Gail Teichmann
Publisher : West Texas A&m University
ISBN 13 : 9781623492984
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Woman of the Plains written by Sandra Gail Teichmann and published by West Texas A&m University. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Nellie Perry, first visited her brother in the Panhandle in 1888 and eventually came to live in Ochiltree County in 1916. During those years and afterward, she kept journals of her life in the Panhandle.

Author : Susan Kates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461936244
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Dirt Women written by Susan Kates and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William J. Healy
Publisher : Russell, Lang
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Red River written by William J. Healy and published by Russell, Lang. This book was released on 1923 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the women of an earlier day by the Women's Canadian club.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boot and Shoe Recorder written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia C. Lin
Publisher : Puffin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of the Red Plain written by Julia C. Lin and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Handy-Marchello
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873516044
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of the Northern Plains written by Barbara Handy-Marchello and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2006 Caroline Bancroft History Prize "Impressively researched and highly readable, Barbara Handy-Marchello's analysis of North Dakota farm women's roles will become the standard by which other works on the subject will be judged." Paula M. Nelson, author of The Prairie Winnows Out Its Own In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women. As the men struggled to raise and sell wheat, the women focused on barnyard labor--raising chickens and cows and selling eggs and butter--to feed and clothe their families and maintain their households through booms and busts. Handy-Marchello details the hopes and fears, the challenges and successes of these women--from the Great Dakota Boom of the 1870s and '80s to the impending depression and drought of the 1930s. Women of the frontier willingly faced drudgery and loneliness, cramped and unconventional living quarters, the threat of prairie fires and fierce blizzards, and the isolation of homesteads located miles from the nearest neighbor. Despite these daunting realities, Dakota farm women cultivated communities among their distant neighbors, shared food and shelter with travelers, developed varied income sources, and raised large families, always keeping in sight the ultimate goal: to provide the next generation with rich, workable land. Enlivened by interviews with pioneer families as well as diaries, memoirs, and other primary sources, Women of the Northern Plains uncovers the significant and changing roles of Dakota farm women who were true partners to their husbands, their efforts marking the difference between success and failure for their families. Barbara Handy-Marchello is a history professor at the University of North Dakota. She has written articles on rural women and is the co-author of A History of the NDSU Seedstocks Project. She lives near Fargo, North Dakota.

Author : Nina Mingya Powles
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838852166
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Bodies of Water written by Nina Mingya Powles and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane 'Gorgeous' Amy Liptrot 'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo – where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things, but have still been, in their own way, home: from the wild coastline of New Zealand to a pond in northwest London. In lyrical, powerful prose, Small Bodies of Water weaves together memories, dreams and nature writing. Exploring everything from migration, food, family, earthquakes and the ancient lunisolar calendar, Nina reflects on a girlhood spent growing up between two cultures, and what it means to belong.

Author : J. Hines
Publisher : London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Indians of the Plains written by J. Hines and published by London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. This book was released on 1915 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: