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The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there

'This book is a triumph' AMANDA FOREMAN

'Absolutely compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB

'A blazing view of the American story' BETTANY HUGHES

'Gripping, eye-opening' EMMA DONOGHUE

'Richly evocative... the survivors were heroines, all of them' YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM

'Beautifully written' CLOVER STROUD

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 had to be brave-hearted women.

Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West

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    Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
    Publication Date: 07/06/2023
    ISBN13: 9780349008288, 978-0349008288
    ISBN10: 0349008280

    Number of Pages: 400

    Non Fiction , History

    Description

    The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there

    'This book is a triumph' AMANDA FOREMAN

    'Absolutely compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB

    'A blazing view of the American story' BETTANY HUGHES

    'Gripping, eye-opening' EMMA DONOGHUE

    'Richly evocative... the survivors were heroines, all of them' YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM

    'Beautifully written' CLOVER STROUD

    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 had to be brave-hearted women.

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