Maura Jane Farrelly explores the history of the nineteenth-century United States via the lives of three people from prominent East Coast families who moved to Wyoming to escape a host of humiliations—only to discover that by 1890 the West was no longer a place where anyone could go to be forgotten and start over.
Maura Jane Farrelly explores the history of the nineteenth-century United States via the lives of three people from prominent East Coast families who moved to Wyoming to escape a host of humiliations—only to discover that by 1890 the West was no longer a place where anyone could go to be forgotten and start over.
Maura Jane Farrelly is an associate professor of American studies at Brandeis University. She has worked as a reporter in Atlanta, Washington DC, and New York. Her books include Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity and Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620–1860.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author’s Note Prologue: Stories 1. Revolutionary Legacies 2. Blueberries and Timber 3. The Fourth Estate 4. Charity Begins at Home 5. Off with Their Heads 6. The Cable Railway Grab 7. Baby Waifs 8. Cowpunching 9. One of God’s Garden Spots 10. Final Resting Places 11. Like Cures Like 12. Marymere 13. Little Girls 14. Katharine and Catherine 15. Family Matters Epilogue: Strings Notes Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author’s Note Prologue: Stories 1. Revolutionary Legacies 2. Blueberries and Timber 3. The Fourth Estate 4. Charity Begins at Home 5. Off with Their Heads 6. The Cable Railway Grab 7. Baby Waifs 8. Cowpunching 9. One of God’s Garden Spots 10. Final Resting Places 11. Like Cures Like 12. Marymere 13. Little Girls 14. Katharine and Catherine 15. Family Matters Epilogue: Strings Notes Index
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