Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier - Paperbackby Ursula Smith (Author), Linda Peavy (Author), John Mack Faragher (Foreword by) During the last half of the nineteenth century, thousands of men went west in search of gold, land, or adventure leaving their wives to handle family, farm, and business affairs on their own. The experiences of these westering men have long been a part of the lore of the American frontier, but the stories of their wives have rarely been told. Ten years of research into