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Pioneer Women
Gaylon Barrow
其他書名
If You Want the Plain Facts, the Stories of Real Tough American Women's Lives, You Can't Get Any Clo
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2009-09-03
主題Fiction / Westerns
ISBN14495061789781449506179
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wIESQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Pioneer women were not always 'women'. Girls learned to grow up fast, and if not, were forced to. Marriage as young as 14 and 15 was very common. Once a family had reached their destination, hired hands that had accompanied these families west often married into the family. The idea of a familiar face for a neighbor in a strange land was often enough for a father to give permission for his daughters to marry, even at such a young age. Mothers also would welcome their daughters as neighbors over some stranger. Once they did reach their destination, the work was far from over. A house would need to be built, and as many arrived in the late summer or fall, that meant that this work often would be done in the cold of winter. Women quickly learned to wield an ax right alongside their husbands. At the first sign of spring, a garden would need to be planted. This was hard work and the women often did much of this themselves.