Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936

by Cathryn Halverson

In contrast to the traditional frontiers and pioneers focus of western studies, Maverick Autobiographies looks at women writers who came not to but from the West. Telling three larger-than-life stories, Cathryn Halverson offers an alternative history of American women's autobiography and a new view of western women's literature. Mary MacLane, Opal Whiteley, and Juanita Harrison, she argues, rewrote frontier myths to make a space for themselves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299197204
• ISBN13: 9780299197209
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"