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Life (Mount Vernon, Iowa: Hawk-Eye Steam Print, I892), 29; Margaret
W Chambers, Reminiscences (N.p., I903); and Mary A. Hodgson, "The
Life of a Pioneer Family" (I922), California State Library, Sacramento.
83. Caroline n Budlong, Memories: Pioneer Days in Oregon and W a shington
(Eugene, Oreg. : Picture Press, I949), 38; Colt, JiVent to Kansas, I32; David
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Edward Blaine, "Letters, 8 24-1900," fr om his wife Kate (no salutation
given, Seattle, 8 54), Beinecke Collection,Yale University Library, New
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Haven, Conn.; and Annie n Tallent, The Black Hills; or, The Last Hunting
Ground cif the Dakotahs (Sioux Falls, s.n: Brevet Press, 1974), 82.
84. Kate McDaniel Furness, "From Prairie to Pacific" (1853), California State
Library, Sacramento.
85. Ellen McGowan Biddle, Reminiscences cif a Soldier's W ife (Philadelphia: J.
B. Lippincott, 1907), 183.
86. Devon A. Mihesuah, American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities (Atlanta,
Ga.: Clarity Press, 1996), 97-98; and Bonnie Duran, "Indigenous Versus
Colonial Discourse: Alcohol and American Indian Identity," lII-28 in
Dressing in Feathers: T h e Construction of the Indian in American Popular
Culture, ed. S. Elizabeth Bird (Boulder, Colo.: W e stview Press, 1996).
Examples include Mrs. E. V a n Court, "Reminiscences of Her Life in
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California" (26 March 1914 , Beinecke Collection, Yale University
Library, New Haven, Conn.; Mary Rice to her sister (Fort Gibson, Okla.,
1835),Beinecke Collection,Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn.;
Lodisa Frizzell, Across the Plains to California in 1852 (New Y o rk: New
Y o rk Public Library, I915), ro; and Sarah May Baldwin, no interview
number, vol. 4, Indian-Pioneer Papers, University of Oklahoma,
Norman.
87. Rice to her sister (I835).
88. Haun, "Woman's T r ip."
89. Ferris, Mormons at Home, 63.
90. Alan M. Klein, "The Political-Economy of Gender: A Nineteenth
Century Plains Indian Case Study," 143-65, and Patricia C.Albers, "Sioux
Women in Transition: A Study of Their Changing Status in Domestic
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and Capitalist Sectors of Production," 7 5-223, both in The Hidden Half:
Studies cif Plains Indian VVcJmen, by Patricia Albers and Beatrice Medicine
(Washington, nc.: University Press of America, 1983).
9I. Pengra, "Diary."
92. Susan Armitage, "Women's Literature and the American Frontier:A New
Perspective on the Frontier Myth," in VVcJmen, VVcJmen Writers, and the JiVest,
ed. L. L. Lee and Merrill Lewis (Troy, N.Y.: Whitson, 1979), 7-9; and
Glenda Riley and N. Jill Howard, "Thus Y o u See I Have Not Much
Rest:The Importance of Food on the Oregon Trail," Idaho Yesterdays 37,
no. 3 (fall 1993): 27-3 ·
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