{"product_id":"twenty-thousands-roads-women-movement-and-the-west-paperback","title":"Twenty Thousands Roads: Women, Movement, and the West - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVirginia Scharff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history-our restless, relentless westward movement--but sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. In colorful, spirited stories, she weaves a lyrical reconsideration of the processes that created, gave meaning to, and ultimately shattered the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwenty Thousand Roads \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces a cast of women mapping the world on their own terms, often crossing political and cultural boundaries defined by male-dominated institutions and perceptions. Scharff examines the faint traces left by Sacagawea and revisits Susan Magoffin's famed honeymoon journey down the Santa Fe Trail. We also meet educated women like historian Grace Hebard and government extension agent Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, who mapped the West with different voyages and visions. Scharff introduces women whose lives gave shape to the forces of gender, race, region, and modernity; participants in exploration, war, politics, empire, and struggles for social justice; and movers and shakers of everyday family life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book powerfully and poetically shows us that to understand the American West, we must examine the lives of women who both built and resisted American expansion. Scharff remaps western history as she reveals how moving women have shaped our past, present, and future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Scharff's wonderfully readable account of women in motion complicates and enriches our understanding of the nineteenth and twentieth century Wests. Her gendered remapping of the regional landscape explodes traditional notions of western movement. All students of women and gender, travel and place, the West and America, would do well to read this excellent book.--David M. Wrobel, author of \u003ci\u003ePromised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Virginia Scharff claims for women what has long been central to the masculine mythology of the West--free movement and its many gifts, real and imagined. Her book is as exhilarating and as intellectually and emotionally expansive as our enduring dream of flight across the American land.\"--Elliott West, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, \u0026amp; the Rush to Colorado\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBrilliant\u003c\/i\u003e is not a word that is often a part of my critical vocabulary, but brilliantly is how \u003ci\u003eTwenty Thousand Roads\u003c\/i\u003e begins. When writing of Sacagawea and Susan Magoffin, Virginia Scharff shows vividly how a single life can be a source of sophisticated cultural analysis without becoming an academic artifact or an object of condescension.\"--Richard White, author of \u003ci\u003eIt's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Scharff\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. She is author of \u003ci\u003eBad Company \u003c\/i\u003e(2002), \u003ci\u003eBrown-Eyed Girl \u003c\/i\u003e(2000), \u003ci\u003eComing of Age: America in the Twentieth Century \u003c\/i\u003e(1998, with Michael Schaller and Robert Schulzinger), \u003ci\u003ePresent Tense: The United States since 1945 \u003c\/i\u003e(1996, with Michael Schaller and Robert Schulzinger), and \u003ci\u003eTaking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age \u003c\/i\u003e(1991).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 249\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.98 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 20, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723845799999,"sku":"9780520237773","price":75.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6c16809ab7278bc8cf0d17bb557156c4.webp?v=1765100583","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/twenty-thousands-roads-women-movement-and-the-west-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}