Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier

Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier. By Cynthia Culver Prescott. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. 320 pp., $49.95, hardback, ISBN 978-1-8165-2543-0.

In Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, Cynthia Culver Prescott examines first and second generation Anglo settlers in Oregon's Willamette Valley during the second half of the nineteenth century. The first generation of pioneers traveled west on the Overland Trail, lured by access to free farmland. Men and women married young, labored hard, and held conservative...