{"product_id":"lamentations-a-novel-of-women-walking-west-paperback-softback-9781496227812","title":"Lamentations; A Novel of Women Walking West (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496227812","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLamentations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Novel of Women Walking West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarol Kammen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496227812\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\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“A superb look at westering women nearly 200 hundred years ago as they accompanied their families into the unknown.”-Sandra Dallas, \u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“I firmly believe this is one of the best Western books out there. It’s perfectly timed with today’s realization that women are people too. And the insights are outstanding.”-Melody Groves, author of\u003ci\u003e She Was Sheriff \u003c\/i\u003eand contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eRound Up\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\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\u003eLamentations\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about the first group of families crossing west to Oregon in 1842, from the perspective of the dozen women on the trip. Although none of these women left a written record of her journey, the company clerk’s daily notations provided documentation of historical events. Based on these records and the author’s own decades of work as a historian, Carol Kammen provides an interpretation of the women’s thoughts and feelings as events played out in and around the wagons heading west.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this novel the men are in the background-and we hear the women ponder the land, their right to be passing through, their lives and how they are changing, the other people in the company, the Native Americans they encounter, and their changing roles. \u003ci\u003eLamentations\u003c\/i\u003e is about women’s reality as wives or unmarried sojourners, as literate or illiterate observers, and as explorers of the land. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kammen gives voice to these women as they consider a strange new land and the people who inhabit it, mulling over what they, as women of their time, could not say aloud. We see the mental and emotional impact of events such as the naming of peoples and lands, of a husband’s suicide, of giving birth, and of ongoing and uncertain interactions with Native peoples from the Missouri River crossing all the way to Oregon. They face the difficulties of the road, the slow trust that builds between some of them, and the oddities of the men with whom they travel. These women move from silent witnesses within a constrained gender sphere to articulate observers of a complicated world they ultimately helped to shape.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1842 Company of Travelers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Starting Out, Looking Back\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 2: Observing, Marveling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 3: Climbing, Descending\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 4: Getting Through\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart 5: Beginning and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDebts Owed\u003c\/p\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":52599914168600,"sku":"9781496227812","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lamentations-a-novel-of-women-walking-west-paperback-softback-9781496227812","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}