{"product_id":"frontier-comrades-from-the-fur-trade-to-the-ford-car-paperback-softback-9781496242228","title":"Frontier Comrades; From the Fur Trade to the Ford Car (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496242228","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrontier Comrades\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom the Fur Trade to the Ford Car\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJim Wilke (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496242228\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 August 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e302 pages, 7 photographs, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFrontier Comrades\u003c\/i\u003e places the life stories of six LGBTQ individuals squarely at the center of the history of the American frontier, bringing to life the times and places where these different individuals found opportunities in the West to live on their own terms.”-Carolyn Brucken, senior curator at the Autry Museum of the American West\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Jim Wilke’s vividly drawn histories evoke sexual and cultural borderlands. . . . Readers will encounter here a West that is both familiar from countless frontier narratives and yet unfamiliar in its well-documented accounts of LGBTQ stories. Together these portraits reinstate complexity and humanity to storied times and places-gay, lesbian, and transgender lives that were there all along.”-Josh Garrett-Davis, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American History at the Huntington\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“With careful storytelling Jim Wilke’s \u003ci\u003eFrontier Comrades\u003c\/i\u003e follows the complex lives of gay, queer, and transgender individuals who inhabited the borderlands of the U.S. West. With engaging prose this work helps paint a much more detailed portrait of desire and identity in American history than previously seen.”-Rebecca Scofield, author of \u003ci\u003eOutriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrontier Comrades\u003c\/i\u003e examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place in different parts of the West, moving chronologically from the fur trade era to the dawn of the automobile age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jim Wilke provides the first comprehensive accounts of figures such as transgender stage driver Charley Parkhurst; transgender Seventh Cavalry laundress Mrs. Noonan (also known as Mrs. Nash); and the extraordinary Clara Dietrich and Ora Chatfield, known by the contemporary press as “lady lovers.” \u003ci\u003eFrontier Comrades\u003c\/i\u003e also offers glimpses of individual personalities: the cool and detached grandeur of William Stewart as he traversed the West during the fur trade era; the stubborn determination of Charley Parkhurst after California’s gold rush; the careful, giddy energy of Mrs. Noonan; the hidden passions of Tombstone sheriff William Breakenridge for a Vanderbilt and a local rustler; the desperate bravery of Dietrich and Chatfield as they sought to elope from Victorian Aspen; and the masculine, matter-of-fact comradeship of loggers and miners as they worked the distant Sierras.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The maelstrom of opportunities and conflicts that made up the West affected lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender westerners in intrinsically personal ways. The accounts in \u003ci\u003eFrontier Comrades\u003c\/i\u003e provide an intimate yet expansive view of the American West.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e List of Illustrations \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. William Stewart and the Great West \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. Charley Parkhurst and the Gold Rush Scene \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. Mrs. Noonan and the Seventh Cavalry \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. William Breakenridge and the Human Borderlands \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. The “Lady Lovers” of Victorian Aspen \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6. An Anonymous Logger in the Industrial Frontier \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Afterword \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600288379160,"sku":"9781496242228","price":18.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/frontier-comrades-from-the-fur-trade-to-the-ford-car-paperback-softback-9781496242228","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}