HIST 2Q93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Janice Woods Windle, True Women, Stillbirth
14 Apr 2014
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Phemie was great, great grandmother of author janice woods windle. Windle wrote the book after doing some research on her ancestors in texas; uses real people, events, and her ancestors" experiences on the frontier, but elaborates to weave a story together. Story focuses on lives of white, aboriginal, and african-american women living on the frontiers of the united states (primarily texas) throughout the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century. Story begins with the texas revolution (or texas war of independence) When all the men go to war, all the women and children are grouped together to be taken care of. Women have guns and are fighting back when their camp is raided while still taking care of the children i. e. when sarah shoots a man and then tends to her crying son. Women use axes to build a raft to cross a river.
