{"product_id":"9781943328086","title":"Westward the Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eWESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort, from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American adventure—pioneering across the continent. Not only does the material represent half-forgotten history—which the author garnered from attics, libraries, state historical museums, and the reminiscences of Far Western Old-timers—but it is unique in presenting the woman’s side of the story in this major American experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pruett Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058855723248,"sku":"9781943328086","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781943328086_p0.jpg?v=1763764951","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781943328086","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}