Lady Undertakers of Old Texas
9781467154277
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Author Kathy Benjamin accompanies the pioneering women of the Lone Star State's funeral business.
The intimate task of caring for the dead had long fallen under women's sphere of responsibilities. But after the Civil War, the sudden popularity of embalming offered new financial opportunities to men who set up as undertakers, pushing women out of their traditional role. In Texas, from the 1880s to the 1930s, women slowly regained their place by the bier. Many worked while pregnant or raising children. Most shouldered the additional weight of personal tragedies and persistent sexism. All brought comfort to the bereaved in the isolation of the Texas frontier, kept its cities free of deadly disease and revolutionized an industry that was just coming into its own.
Colorado's Mrs. Captain Ellen Jack
9781467153638
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Ellen E. Jack backed up her orders with a shotgun as she stood at the entrance to her Black Queen Mine. To profit from the mine, located near Aspen, Colorado, she engaged in many other battles with lawyers and capitalists who tried to wrest her ore away. Mrs. Captain Jack contributed to the myth of the West by crowning herself as the "Mining Queen of the Rockies" as she entertained tourists at her roadhouse near Colorado Springs. Author Jane Bardal offers a captivating biography of a pioneering woman who fashioned a legacy through true tenacity and maybe even a few tall tales.
1960s Austin Gangsters
9781626198401
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Texas Oblivion
9781467147378
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Rio Grande Sniper Killings, The
9781467153430
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