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Harcourt, Brace & World. Good in Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition. Hardback. Signed by Author .
Daughters of the Country. The Women of the Fur Traders and Mountain Men by O’MEARA Walter - (1968)
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Daughters of the Country. The Women of the Fur Traders and Mountain Men
by O’MEARA Walter
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New York: Harcourt, (1968). First edition. cloth. Fine/pictorial dust jacket (very minor wear at top edges). Octavo. Illustrated “ ... the first published account of an oddly neglected aspect of American history – the racial and sexual confrontation of the Indian woman and the white men on our frontiers” (dust jacket blurb). With extensive notes, bibliography and an index.
- Bookseller Randall House Rare Books (US)
- Format/Binding Cloth
- Book Condition Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition pictorial dust jacket (very minor wear at top edges)
- Edition First edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Harcourt
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published (1968)
- Keywords women's studies, Frontier, mountain men, fur trade
- Size Octavo
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Daughters of the Country The Women of the Fur Traders and Mountain Men
by Walter O'Meara
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DAUGHTERS OF THE COUNTRY, THE WOMEN OF THE FUR TRADERS AND MOUNTAIN MEN
by O'MEARA, WALTER
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968., 1968. First edition. First edition. Cloth, 368pp., illus. An outstanding work on a neglected aspect of early Western history. "This is the first published account of an oddly neglected aspect of American history--the racial and sexual confrontation of the Indian women and the white man on our frontiers. Mr. O'Meara traces this fascinating relationship from earliest times, showing us the Indian woman in all the roles of her obscure history; as the victim of mass rape, as slave concubine; trading-post and rendezvous prostitute, casual blanket-sharer, hospitality gift to a passing trader. We observe her, too, as the wife a' la façon du pays, cast adrift in a hostile world when her trader husband returns to civilization. An sometimes as the loved and respected wife of a distinguished, even great, man--like the Cree girl who became the Baroness Stratchona, or the Ojibway bride who was known and loved as Lady Douglas. Mr. O'Meara…
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