I am a stranger here myself / Debra Gwartney.
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TextSeries: River teeth literary nonfiction seriesPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780826360724
- 0826360726
- Gwartney, Debra -- Family
- Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847
- Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847
- Women -- Idaho -- Biography
- Idaho -- Social life and customs
- Salmon (Idaho) -- Biography
- Women -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions
- Cayuse Indians -- Missions
- Whitman Massacre, 1847
- Idaho -- Mœurs et coutumes
- Cayuse (Indiens) -- Missions
- Massacre de Whitman, Wash., 1847
- Cayuse Indians -- Missions
- Families
- Manners and customs
- Women
- Women -- Social conditions
- Idaho
- Idaho -- Salmon
- West United States
- Whitman Massacre (1847)
- 1847
- 920.72009796 23
- CT3262.I2
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"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 killed at the Whitman Mission in 1847 by Cayuse Indians. Whitman's role as a white woman drawn in to "settle" the West reflects the tough-as-nails women in Gwartney's own family. Arranged in four sections as a series of interlocking explorations and ruminations, Gwartney uses Whitman as a touchstone to spin a tightly woven narrative about identity, the power of womanhood, and coming to peace with one's most cherished place."--Provided by publisher.
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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.
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