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Brave Hearted

Katie Hickman

"Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod and - like the wiry grass - seem as difficult to weed out and discard."

The true-life story of women's experiences in the 'Wild West' is more gripping more heart-rending and more stirring than all the movies novels folk-legends and ballads that popular imagination has been able to create.

Whether they were the hard-drinking hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns 'ordinary' wives and mothers walking two thousand miles across the prairies pulling their handcarts behind them Chinese slave-brides working in laundries or the Native American women displaced by the mass migration of the 'whites' to their lands all have one trait in common: that of extreme resilience and courage in the face of the unknown.

Reading the extraordinary accounts they have left behind them their experiences seem as strange to us today as it must have been to have lived through them perhaps even stranger. They were put to the test in terms of sheer survival in ways that we can only dimly imagine.

Praise for Katie Hickman
'Fascinating . . . I was swept along by Hickman's concise chapters and her crisp wry style' The Times

'Absolutely brilliant . . . remarkable women until now almost unknown. I was so gripped I couldn't put it down' Antonia Fraser

'Goes beneath the surface of imperial male history . . . a cast of extraordinary women. Wonderful' Anita Anand

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  • Classification : History
  • Pub Date : FEB 2, 2022
  • Imprint : Virago
  • Page Extent : 400
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9780349008295
  • Price : INR 1,599
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Katie Hickman

Katie Hickman is the author of eight books including two bestselling works of non-fiction Daughters of Britannia - in the Sunday Times bestseller lists for ten months and a twenty part series for BBC Radio 4 - and Courtesans. She has also written a trilogy of historical novels - The Aviary Gate The Pindar Diamond and The House of Bishopgate - which have been translated into twenty languages. Her other books include two highly acclaimed travel books including Travels with a Mexican Circus which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

Born into a diplomatic family she had a peripatetic childhood growing up in Spain Ireland Singapore and South America; she has two children and lives in London.

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