I Am a Stranger Here Myself

by Debra Gwartney

Book Overview

Winner of the 2020 WILLA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction from Women Writing the West

Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of fourteen people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826360718
• ISBN13: 9780826360717
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"