I Am a Stranger Here Myself
«I Am a Stranger Here Myself is a lively memoir, half personal, half historical but intertwined and connected in surprising ways. Fascinating."" - Gretel Ehrlich, author of The Solace of Open Spaces»
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. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of New Mexico Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780826360717
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«I Am a Stranger Here Myself is a lively memoir, half personal, half historical but intertwined and connected in surprising ways. Fascinating."" - Gretel Ehrlich, author of The Solace of Open Spaces»