Grit and Ghosts tells the stories of eight women from the American West who speak to a shared human experience of struggle and the grit required to move through it.
Grit and Ghosts tells the stories of eight women from the American West who speak to a shared human experience of struggle and the grit required to move through it.
Robin Foster is a public historian and creative writer. She is the author of Carl Van Doren: A Man of Ideas and The Age of Sail in the Age of Aquarius: The South Street Seaport and the Crisis of the Sixties.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. On Working Your Ass Off, Even When Justice Couldn’t Care Less: Marguerite Lindsley, Yellowstone 2. On Memory (Or Imagination Disguised as Memory, Because Sometimes You Can’t Tell the Difference): Gertrude Stein, Oakland 3. On Struggle, Opportunity, and Running Full Speed Ahead: The Californians 4. On Fear and Its Alter Egos, Dread, Panic, Terror: Everywhere 5. On Dreams and Rumor: Teresa Urrea, Sonoran Desert 6. On Giving Everything You’ve Got: Cathay Williams, the Santa Fe Trail 7. On Going Solo: Mary Lou Williams and Julia Lee at the Crossroads, Kansas City Notes Bibliography
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. On Working Your Ass Off, Even When Justice Couldn’t Care Less: Marguerite Lindsley, Yellowstone 2. On Memory (Or Imagination Disguised as Memory, Because Sometimes You Can’t Tell the Difference): Gertrude Stein, Oakland 3. On Struggle, Opportunity, and Running Full Speed Ahead: The Californians 4. On Fear and Its Alter Egos, Dread, Panic, Terror: Everywhere 5. On Dreams and Rumor: Teresa Urrea, Sonoran Desert 6. On Giving Everything You’ve Got: Cathay Williams, the Santa Fe Trail 7. On Going Solo: Mary Lou Williams and Julia Lee at the Crossroads, Kansas City Notes Bibliography
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