Brave Hearted

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Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns, wives and mothers travelling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys, African-American women in search of freedom from slavery, Chinese sex-workers sold openly on the docks of San Francisco, Native American women brutally displaced by the unstoppable tide of white settlers - all were women forced to draw on huge reserves of resilience and courage in the face of tumultuous change.Drawing on letters, diaries, and other contemporary accounts, sifting through the legends and the myths, the laws and the treaties, Katie Hickman tells the epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who witnessed it. 'Hickman has woven together an extraordinary range of women's first-person voices into a gripping narrative' Times Literary Supplement 'A vivid, fascinating rag rug of cultural history' Emma Donoghue'Puts the rough texture of personal experience back into the big narrative of how the west was won' Literary Review

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