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X-WR-CALDESC:True Story Book Club\n\nBrave Hearted: The Women of the Americ
 an West by Katie Hickman (400 p.)\n\nHard-drinking\, hard-living poker pla
 yers and prostitutes of the new boom towns\; wives and mothers traveling t
 wo and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys\
 , some of them so poor they walked the entire route\; African-American wom
 en in search of freedom from slavery\; Chinese sex-workers sold openly on 
 the docks of San Francisco\; Native American women brutally displaced by t
 he unstoppable tide of white settlers – these were the women who settled t
 he American West\, whose stories until now have remained mostly untold. As
  the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes\, “Myth an
 d misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye gra
 ss from sod\, and—like the wiry grass—seem as difficult to weed out and di
 scard.” But the true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is
  more gripping\, heart-rending\, and stirring than all the movies\, novels
 \, folk-legends\, and ballads of popular imagination.\n\nDrawing on letter
 s\, diaries\, and other extraordinary contemporary accounts\, sifting thro
 ugh the legends and the myths\, the laws and the treaties\, Katie Hickman 
 presents us with a cast of unforgettable women\, all forced to draw on hug
 e reserves of resilienceand courage in the face of tumultuous change: the 
 half Cree\, Marguerite McLoughlin\, the much-admired “First Lady” of Fort 
 Vancouver\; the Presbyterian missionary Narcissa Whitman\, who in 1837 bec
 ame the first white woman to make the overland journey west across the Roc
 ky Mountains\; Biddy Mason\, the Mississippi slave who fought for her free
 dom through the courts of California\; Olive Oatman\, adopted by the Mohav
 e\, famous for her facial tattoos.\n\nThis is the story of the women who p
 articipated in the greatest mass migration in American history\, transform
 ing their country in the process. This is American history not as it was r
 omanticized but as it was lived.\n
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DESCRIPTION:True Story Book Club\n\nBrave Hearted: The Women of the America
 n West by Katie Hickman (400 p.)\n\nHard-drinking\, hard-living poker play
 ers and prostitutes of the new boom towns\; wives and mothers traveling tw
 o and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys\,
  some of them so poor they walked the entire route\; African-American wome
 n in search of freedom from slavery\; Chinese sex-workers sold openly on t
 he docks of San Francisco\; Native American women brutally displaced by th
 e unstoppable tide of white settlers – these were the women who settled th
 e American West\, whose stories until now have remained mostly untold. As 
 the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes\, “Myth and
  misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye gras
 s from sod\, and—like the wiry grass—seem as difficult to weed out and dis
 card.” But the true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is 
 more gripping\, heart-rending\, and stirring than all the movies\, novels\
 , folk-legends\, and ballads of popular imagination.\n\nDrawing on letters
 \, diaries\, and other extraordinary contemporary accounts\, sifting throu
 gh the legends and the myths\, the laws and the treaties\, Katie Hickman p
 resents us with a cast of unforgettable women\, all forced to draw on huge
  reserves of resilienceand courage in the face of tumultuous change: the h
 alf Cree\, Marguerite McLoughlin\, the much-admired “First Lady” of Fort V
 ancouver\; the Presbyterian missionary Narcissa Whitman\, who in 1837 beca
 me the first white woman to make the overland journey west across the Rock
 y Mountains\; Biddy Mason\, the Mississippi slave who fought for her freed
 om through the courts of California\; Olive Oatman\, adopted by the Mohave
 \, famous for her facial tattoos.\n\nThis is the story of the women who pa
 rticipated in the greatest mass migration in American history\, transformi
 ng their country in the process. This is American history not as it was ro
 manticized but as it was lived.\n
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SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
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