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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700624902
ISBN-13
9780700624904
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237931538
Product Key Features
Book Title
Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers : a Family Journey Through American History
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Social History, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2017-026683
Dewey Edition
23
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"A sweeping saga of women and families in the frontier American West. From Bleeding Kansas to female doctors and dude ranches, Lynne Marie Getz details the story of abolitionists Augustus and Susan Wattles and their descendants. Extensively researched, Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers uses the Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family to illuminate American history."-- Nicole Etcheson , author of Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War EraM In Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers: A Family Journey through American History , historian Lynne Getz skillfully brings to life the extended Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family. She adeptly showcases the ideas and experiences of three generations to reveal broad forces at work in nineteenth-century American life and details one family's encounters with antebellum antislavery and women's rights activism, the Civil War, women's lives and labor in and outside of the home, and the American West. In her thoughtful recounting of a fascinating family (and its memory-making about its history), Getz makes a strong case for the merits of family history as a path to enlarge and refine our understanding of American history.-- Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz , author of The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism "Lynne Marie Getz's book is engagingly written, with crisp storytelling and skillful use of the plentiful family letters the people come to life--as individuals, as members of a particular family, and as Americans in particular times and places that demonstrate beautifully how American history is a history of migration organized and enacted by families. Families who moved for their own reasons and not necessarily for the commonplace explanation of betterment on a succession of frontiers."-- Susan E. Gray , coeditor of Contingent Maps: Rethinking Western Women's History and the North American West, "The historical rigor and objectivity of Getz's treatment testifies to family history's necessary role in fully comprehending the past. Featuring a deep and thorough bibliography and extensive notes, this beautifully written book is one of the best treatments of family history--or really, any history. Essential."-- Choice, A sweeping saga of women and families in the frontier American West. From Bleeding Kansas to female doctors and dude ranches, Lynne Marie Getz details the story of abolitionists Augustus and Susan Wattles and their descendants. Extensively researched, Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers uses the Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family to illuminate American history.-- Nicole Etcheson , author of Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War EraM In Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers: A Family Journey through American History , historian Lynne Getz skillfully brings to life the extended Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family. She adeptly showcases the ideas and experiences of three generations to reveal broad forces at work in nineteenth-century American life and details one family's encounters with antebellum antislavery and women's rights activism, the Civil War, women's lives and labor in and outside of the home, and the American West. In her thoughtful recounting of a fascinating family (and its memory-making about its history), Getz makes a strong case for the merits of family history as a path to enlarge and refine our understanding of American history.-- Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz , author of The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Browns Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism Lynne Marie Getz's book is engagingly written, with crisp story-telling and skillful use of the plentiful family letters the people come to life--as individuals, as members of a particular family, and as Americans in particular times and places that demonstrates beautifully how American history is a history of migration organized and enacted by families, who move for their own reasons, and not necessarily for the commonplace explanation of betterment on a succession of frontiers.-- Susan E. Gray , Co-editor, Contingent Maps: Rethinking Western Women's History and the North American West, "A sweeping saga of women and families in the frontier American West. From Bleeding Kansas to female doctors and dude ranches, Lynne Marie Getz details the story of abolitionists Augustus and Susan Wattles and their descendants. Extensively researched, Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers uses the Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family to illuminate American history."-- Nicole Etcheson , author of Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War EraM In Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers: A Family Journey through American History , historian Lynne Getz skillfully brings to life the extended Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family. She adeptly showcases the ideas and experiences of three generations to reveal broad forces at work in nineteenth-century American life and details one family's encounters with antebellum antislavery and women's rights activism, the Civil War, women's lives and labor in and outside of the home, and the American West. In her thoughtful recounting of a fascinating family (and its memory-making about its history), Getz makes a strong case for the merits of family history as a path to enlarge and refine our understanding of American history.-- Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz , author of The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism "Lynne Marie Getz's book is engagingly written, with crisp story-telling and skillful use of the plentiful family letters the people come to life--as individuals, as members of a particular family, and as Americans in particular times and places that demonstrates beautifully how American history is a history of migration organized and enacted by families, who move for their own reasons, and not necessarily for the commonplace explanation of betterment on a succession of frontiers."-- Susan E. Gray , Co-editor, Contingent Maps: Rethinking Western Women's History and the North American West, A sweeping saga of women and families in the frontier American West. From Bleeding Kansas to female doctors and dude ranches, Lynne Marie Getz details the story of abolitionists Augustus and Susan Wattles and their descendants. Extensively researched, Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers uses the Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family to illuminate American history.Nicole Etcheson , author of Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War EraM In Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers: A Family Journey through American History , historian Lynne Getz skillfully brings to life the extended Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family. She adeptly showcases the ideas and experiences of three generations to reveal broad forces at work in nineteenth-century American life and details one familys encounters with antebellum antislavery and womens rights activism, the Civil War, womens lives and labor in and outside of the home, and the American West. In her thoughtful recounting of a fascinating family (and its memory-making about its history), Getz makes a strong case for the merits of family history as a path to enlarge and refine our understanding of American history.Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz , author of The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Browns Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism Lynne Marie Getzs book is engagingly written, with crisp storytelling and skillful use of the plentiful family letters the people come to lifeas individuals, as members of a particular family, and as Americans in particular times and places that demonstrate beautifully how American history is a history of migration organized and enacted by families. Families who moved for their own reasons and not necessarily for the commonplace explanation of betterment on a succession of frontiers.Susan E. Gray , coeditor of Contingent Maps: Rethinking Western Womens History and the North American West, "A sweeping saga of women and families in the frontier American West. From Bleeding Kansas to female doctors and dude ranches, Lynne Marie Getz details the story of abolitionists Augustus and Susan Wattles and their descendants. Extensively researched, Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers uses the Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family to illuminate American history."-- Nicole Etcheson , author of Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era In Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers: A Family Journey through American History , historian Lynne Getz skillfully brings to life the extended Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family. She adeptly showcases the ideas and experiences of three generations to reveal broad forces at work in nineteenth-century American life and details one family's encounters with antebellum antislavery and women's rights activism, the Civil War, women's lives and labor in and outside of the home, and the American West. In her thoughtful recounting of a fascinating family (and its memory-making about its history), Getz makes a strong case for the merits of family history as a path to enlarge and refine our understanding of American history.-- Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz , author of The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism "Lynne Marie Getz's book is engagingly written, with crisp storytelling and skillful use of the plentiful family letters the people come to life--as individuals, as members of a particular family, and as Americans in particular times and places that demonstrate beautifully how American history is a history of migration organized and enacted by families. Families who moved for their own reasons and not necessarily for the commonplace explanation of betterment on a succession of frontiers."-- Susan E. Gray , coeditor of Contingent Maps: Rethinking Western Women's History and the North American West, "Anyone interested in family memory, gender, or western social hsitory will value this work."-- Western Historical Quarterly "The historical rigor and objectivity of Getz's treatment testifies to family history's necessary role in fully comprehending the past. Featuring a deep and thorough bibliography and extensive notes, this beautifully written book is one of the best treatments of family history--or really, any history. Essential."-- Choice, "The challenges of writing such a cross-generational saga are considerable, and Lynn Getz proves up to the task. Readers will be caught up in such family dynamics as the support of older women for younger ones taking up new educational, professional, and business challenges."-- Journal of Arizona History "Anyone interested in family memory, gender, or western social history will value this work."-- Western Historical Quarterly "The historical rigor and objectivity of Getz's treatment testifies to family history's necessary role in fully comprehending the past. Featuring a deep and thorough bibliography and extensive notes, this beautifully written book is one of the best treatments of family history--or really, any history. Essential."-- Choice, "A sweeping saga of women and families in the frontier American West. From Bleeding Kansas to female doctors and dude ranches, Lynne Marie Getz details the story of abolitionists Augustus and Susan Wattles and their descendants. Extensively researched, Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers uses the Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family to illuminate American history."- Nicole Etcheson , author of Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War EraM In Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers: A Family Journey through American History , historian Lynne Getz skillfully brings to life the extended Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family. She adeptly showcases the ideas and experiences of three generations to reveal broad forces at work in nineteenth-century American life and details one family's encounters with antebellum antislavery and women's rights activism, the Civil War, women's lives and labor in and outside of the home, and the American West. In her thoughtful recounting of a fascinating family (and its memory-making about its history), Getz makes a strong case for the merits of family history as a path to enlarge and refine our understanding of American history.- Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz , author of The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism "Lynne Marie Getz's book is engagingly written, with crisp story-telling and skillful use of the plentiful family letters the people come to life--as individuals, as members of a particular family, and as Americans in particular times and places that demonstrates beautifully how American history is a history of migration organized and enacted by families, who move for their own reasons, and not necessarily for the commonplace explanation of betterment on a succession of frontiers."- Susan E. Gray , Co-editor, Contingent Maps: Rethinking Western Women's History and the North American West, "The story of the Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family and the unfolding of American history through the family perspective makes for interesting reading and should be appealing to a wide audience."-- Kansas History "The challenges of writing such a cross-generational saga are considerable, and Lynn Getz proves up to the task. Readers will be caught up in such family dynamics as the support of older women for younger ones taking up new educational, professional, and business challenges."-- Journal of Arizona History "Anyone interested in family memory, gender, or western social history will value this work."-- Western Historical Quarterly "The historical rigor and objectivity of Getz's treatment testifies to family history's necessary role in fully comprehending the past. Featuring a deep and thorough bibliography and extensive notes, this beautifully written book is one of the best treatments of family history--or really, any history. Essential."-- Choice, A sweeping saga of women and families in the frontier American West. From Bleeding Kansas to female doctors and dude ranches, Lynne Marie Getz details the story of abolitionists Augustus and Susan Wattles and their descendants. Extensively researched, Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers uses the Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family to illuminate American history.Nicole Etcheson , author of Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War EraM In Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers: A Family Journey through American History , historian Lynne Getz skillfully brings to life the extended Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family. She adeptly showcases the ideas and experiences of three generations to reveal broad forces at work in nineteenth-century American life and details one familys encounters with antebellum antislavery and womens rights activism, the Civil War, womens lives and labor in and outside of the home, and the American West. In her thoughtful recounting of a fascinating family (and its memory-making about its history), Getz makes a strong case for the merits of family history as a path to enlarge and refine our understanding of American history.Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz , author of The Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Browns Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism Lynne Marie Getz's book is engagingly written, with crisp storytelling and skillful use of the plentiful family letters the people come to life--as individuals, as members of a particular family, and as Americans in particular times and places that demonstrate beautifully how American history is a history of migration organized and enacted by families. Families who moved for their own reasons and not necessarily for the commonplace explanation of betterment on a succession of frontiers.-- Susan E. Gray , coeditor of Contingent Maps: Rethinking Western Womens History and the North American West
Dewey Decimal
929.20973
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Prologue: From Plymouth Rock to Creede, Colorado--A Family of Long Memory 1. Susan and Augustus: Partners for Reform 2. For Freedom and Equality: The Wattles Family in Kansas 3. Sarah: The Making of a Feminist Consciousness 4. The Wattles Family in the Civil War, Part 1: A Scattered Home Front 5. The Wattles Family in the Civil War, Part 2: Fighting for Union and Memory 6. "My Dear Doctor": The Medical Career of the Wattles Sisters 7. A Westering Family: The Watleses-Faunces as Settler Colonists 8. A Western Identity: The Wetherill Women Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Using family letters, this book traces three generations of a family of abolitionists, women doctors, ranchers, and Indian traders. The Wattles-Faunce-Wetherill family left an important written legacy of the struggle against slavery, life in the Civil War, the experiences of some of the first women to be doctors in America, and the trials of western settlement., Nearly 250 years after ninety-five-year-old Elder Thomas Faunce got caught up in the mythmaking around Plymouth Rock, his great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter Hilda Faunce Wetherill died in Pacific Grove, California, leaving behind a cache of letters and family papers. The remarkable story they told prompted historian Lynne Marie Getz to search out related collections and archives--and from these to assemble a family chronology documenting three generations of American life. Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers tells of zealous abolitionists and free-state campaigners aiding and abetting John Brown in Bleeding Kansas; of a Civil War soldier serving as a provost marshal in an occupied Arkansas town; of young women who became doctors in rural Texas and New York City in the late nineteenth century; of a homesteader and businessman among settler colonists in Colorado; and of sisters who married into the Wetherill family--known for their discovery of Ancient Pueblo sites at Mesa Verde and elsewhere--who catered to a taste for Western myths with a trading post on a Navajo reservation and a guest ranch for tourists on the upper Rio Grande. Whether they tell of dabbling in antebellum reforms like spiritualism, vegetarianism, and water cures; building schools for free blacks in Ohio or championing Indian rights in the West; serving in the US Army or confronting the struggles of early women doctors and educators, these letters reveal the sweep of American history on an intimate scale, as it was lived and felt and described by individuals; their family story reflects the richness and complexity of the genealogy of the nation.
LC Classification Number
CS71.W3532017
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