Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West

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FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS: Hickman shares primary sources?letters, diaries, and other contemporary accounts?giving us an intimate and vivid account of daily life in the Wild West. Hickman expertly collects, shapes, and places these primary sources in context for the reader. The result is a completely new account of the American West, more vivid and real than anything we've seen before.DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES: Unlike most historical accounts of the Wild West, which focus on larger-than-life figures like Wild Bill Hickock and Jesse James or exclusively on the white pioneers who settled the frontier, Brave Hearted presents the stories of a wide array of women who played a part in the historic transformation of the American West, including the Native Americans, the Chinese, and the Black fugitive slaves. THE GREATEST MASS MIGRATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Hickman reexamines our understanding of the greatest mass migration event in American history, in which a group largely comprised of immigrants made their way west, first living alongside and then ultimately displacing and dispossessing the indigenous people who inhabited these lands.REALITY OVER MYTH: Hickman cuts through the myths that have been built up over decades of popular culture, depicting instead the daily reality of life on the frontier. Through her kaleidoscopic approach, Hickman completely reframes our notion of the ?Wild West.? UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS: The women Hickman features in her book are at once both ordinary and extraordinary, displaying immense courage and bravery. These are compelling characters who confound our expectations of women of the time, such as Marguerite McLoughlin, the mixed-race matriarch who presided over Fort Vancouver and defied the white pioneers' expectations of the ?uncivilized? frontier. TIMELY REAPPRAISAL: For the past two decades, since the premiere of HBO's ?Deadwood, ? there's been a growing interest in the lived realities behind the myth of the Wild West, as evidenced most recently by the hit Taylor Sheridan TV show ?1883, ? a gritty fictional account set in the same period and location as this book. TARGET AUDIENCE: For readers of Jill Lepore, Mary Beard, Antonia Fraser, Amanda Foreman, Sally Bedell Smith, Margot Lee Shetterly, Rebecca Skloot, Elaine Showalter, Denise Kiernan, Saidiya Hartman, and Terese Marie Mailhot.