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Domesticating the West

The Re-Creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class

Domesticating the West( )
Author: Jackson, Brenda K.
Series title:Women in the West Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8032-5105-2
Publication Date:Dec 2005
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $50.00
Book Description:

In 1881 Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt said a final good-bye to Massachusetts and the eastern seaboard and set out in search not of land but of opportunities for social and political advancement. Facing severe limitations to their goals in the depressed and disheveled postwar East, the Tannatts went west to Walla Walla, Washington Territory, to pursue their dreams of influence and status. Domesticating the West examines the motivations of late-nineteenth-century middle-class migrants who...
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