Westward The Women [Hardcover]

WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort, from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American adventurepioneering across the continent. Not only does the material represent half-forgotten historywhich the author garnered from attics, libraries, state historical museums, and the reminiscences of Far Western Old-timersbut it is unique in presenting the womans side of the story in this major American experience.With dramatic clarity the author of FARTHEST REACH has written the intimate and human stories of certain outstanding personalities among these pioneer women; the Maine blue-stocking pursuing her studies of botany and taxidermy in frontier solitude; the gentle nuns from Belgium teaching needlework and litanies to children of the forest; the little ex-milliner who performed the first autopsy by a woman; the suffragette who established a newspaper for Western women and rode plushy river boats and the dusty roads preaching her gospel of Equal Rights; hurdy-gurdy girls from Idaho boomtowns; and many another martyr, heroine, diarist, gun moll, missionary, feminist, and mother in this turbulent era of pioneering.Materials: Feature flyers with similar themed titles and womens studies titles for cross-marketing.Online: Featured on www.GraphicArtsBooks.com.Promotion: Goodreads giveaway.Reviews and features: Targeted mentions and excerpts in regional, history, and niche media focused on western and pioneer life.Sales: Targeted special sales promotion to ranch stores and book clubs.Tradeshows: Featured at MPIBA.1. Aprons to Their Eyes2. Were Females Wanted?3. Eight on Her Honeymoon4. One Dare Not Be Nervous in Oregon5. Red Women6. Females Are Sought7. $1 a Dance8. The Prophet9. The Rebel10. Dear Diary11. Over the Top of the WorldNew edition of a classic. WestWinds Press is proud to introduce to a new generation Nancy Wilsons Rosss lively history of some of the remarkable pioneer women of the American West.EXCERPT 2:l3u