Recherches sur Guittone d'Arezzo

About this book

From Sacagawea's Travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. In this book Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of U.S. history -- our restless, relentless westward movement -- but she sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Her spirited stories weave a lyrical reconsideration of the processes that created, gave meaning to, and ultimately shattered the West.