402. Dr. Frances Levine - Author of "Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail"

Dr. Frances Levine has had a varied career, from teaching to heading up various major museums, writing books. Now, she has written "Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail," after many years of passionate research. Through diaries, letters, and firsthand accounts, Levine seeks to understand the experiences of women who journeyed from St. Louis to Santa Fe, as well as some who made an eastward crossing. Crossings focuses on women who traveled during the most crucial period of Santa Fe Trail trade from the early 1820s to the later 1870s, ending as railroads made cross-continental movement a safer and more leisurely experience for travelers. Several of the women made multiple crossings, adding to the depth of their observations of the changing country and dispelling the myth of women in this period as averse to the risks of trail life.

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402. Dr. Frances Levine - Author of "Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail" is an episode from Arts Interview with Nancy Kranzberg by Kelly Wells.

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This episode was published on Dec 4, 2024.

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