Writing the Trail: Five Women's Frontier Narratives

by Deborah Lawrence

For a long time, the American West was mainly identified with white masculinity, but as more women's narratives of westward expansion came to light, scholars revised purely patriarchal interpretations. Writing the Trail continues in this vein by providing a comparative literary analysis of five frontier narratives---Susan Magoffin's Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico, Sarah Royce's A Frontier Lady, Louise Clappe's The Shirley Letters, Eliza Farnham's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587295091
• ISBN13: 9781587295096
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"