By Adrienne Caughfield
ISBN-10: 158544409X
ISBN-13: 9781585444090
Adrienne Caughfield mines the diaries and letters of a few 90 Texas ladies to discover the information and enthusiasms they dropped at the Western frontier. even supposing there have been a couple of amazing exceptions, so much of them drew on their family talents and values to set up not just civilization,” yet their very own safety. Caughfield sheds gentle on women’s activism (the turn part of domesticity), attitudes towards race and civilization,” the tie among a imaginative and prescient of a unified continent and a cultivated wasteland, and republican values. She bargains a brand new knowing of not just gender roles within the West but additionally the impulse for expansionism itself.
In Texas, Caughfield demonstrates, women by no means stopped arriving with extra gas for the flames [of expansionism] as their households attempted to discover a spot to calm down, a few position with a bit extra space, the place nationwide future and private desires merged right into a excellent whole.” In doing so, Texas ladies multiplied not just American borders, yet their very own as well.
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That certainly was a narrow escape from a cruel death,” she wrote later. 39 Many concerns stemmed from mutual misunderstanding, such as those mentioned above. Because of cultural and linguistic differences, whites and Native Americans could not meet each others’ expectations. Native American dress and hygiene, which Helm admitted did exist, failed to reach white standards of decency. Their concept of personal space and property did likewise. When Feller stood in helpless rage as her bread walked out the door, or when Maverick quailed at Tonkawas’ examining her baby, they could not communicate their frustrations.
Tales such as Horn’s and Plummer’s admittedly exaggerated their ordeals, playing with their readers’ sentimental urges and encouraging the removal of the culprits. Still, no decent American could stand by passively as women suffered at the hands of barbarians. In publishing the details of their captivity, then, women like Plummer called for the civilization of Texas in a different manner than Cazneau. 45 Yet Horn’s narrative ended on a more optimistic note. She acknowledged the agony she faced as a captive.
12 In a slightly different vein, Ann Raney Coleman viewed the dearth of white women with a little more levity than did Ames or Helm and turned it instead to her advantage. Coleman was still living with her parents when she and her family arrived in the early s, and one of the first things she noticed was the favorable ratio of bachelors to available ladies. This worked to her benefit and that of her sister when attending dancing parties. They were good dancers, and because of the lack of girls in the area, both had “several admirers” from which to choose.
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