{"product_id":"mary-hallock-foote-author-illustrator-of-the-american-west-volume-19-9780806133973","title":"Mary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the American West Volume 19","description":"\u003cp\u003eDevoted wife and mother. Acclaimed novelist, illustrator, and interpreter of the American West. At a time when society expected women to concentrate on family and hearth, Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) published twelve novels, four short story collections, almost two dozen stories and essays, and innumerable illustrations. In \u003cem\u003eMary Hallock Foote, \u003c\/em\u003e Darlis A. Willer examines the life of this gifted and spirited woman from the East as she adapted herself and her artistic vision to the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFoote's images of the American West differed sharply from those offered by male artists and writers of the time. She depicted a more gentle West, a domestic West of families and settlements rather than a Wild West of soldiers, American Indians, and cowboys. Miller examines how Foote's career was molded by the East-West tensions she experienced throughout her adult life and by society's expectations of womanhood and motherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis biography recounts Foote's Quaker upbringing; her education at the School of Design for Women at Cooper Union, New York; her marriage to Arthur De Wint Foote, including his alcohol problems; her life in Boise, Idaho, and later Grass Valley, California; her grief over the early death of daughter Agnes Foote; and the previously unexplored last two decades of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiller has made extensive use of every major archive of letters and documents by and about Foote. She sheds light on Foote's numerous stories, essays, and novels. And examines all pertinent sources on Foote's life and works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone interested in the American West, women's history, or life histories in general will find Miller's biography of Mary Hallock Foote fascinating, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiller, Darlis A.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDarlis A. Miller\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of numerous books on the Southwest, including \u003cem\u003eSoldiers and Settlers, Captain Jack Crawford, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAbove \u003c\/em\u003ea \u003cem\u003eCommon\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSoldier, \u003c\/em\u003eabout Frank and Mary Clarke. She is Professor Emerita in the History Department at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50924498485522,"sku":"9780806133973","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_24b4af49-1b44-4946-953a-ff9616fbb42b.jpg?v=1738971832","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mary-hallock-foote-author-illustrator-of-the-american-west-volume-19-9780806133973","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}