Nineteenth century America was an age of opportunity and progress. The door to the West was open, after Napoleon sold the Mississippi region to the United States to finance his wars. As early as 1811, President John Adams informed the American public his desire to expand American interests in the West in the Indian and Spanish territories.
After the Mexican-American War, the United States acquired several territories from Mexico Texas, California, Nevada, and the Strait of Guadeloupe. These new acquisitions opened new opportunities for the Americans. At that time, much of the West was sparsely populated by Mexicans, Americans, and Indians. Land was a common commodity. The federal government made plans for the rapid urbanization and industrialization of these territories although opposition rocked the chambers of the US Congress. In 1840 there was widespread Indian rebellion in the area. The US army had to pacify the Indians before implementing the federal economic plans. About 20 years later, gold was discovered in California. There was a rapid population boom in that state. People flocked to the gold mines.
For some historians, the Westward movement was a masculine quest. The woman was limited to the activities of the household cooking, laundry, and planting. Indeed, the wife was considered an appendage of the husband in the pursuit of land and wealth. In the song Gold Rush Brides, women are depicted as an oppressed group a typical handmaid of men
Who were the homestead wivesWho were the gold rush bridesDoes anybody knowDo their works survive their yellow fever lives in the pages they wroteThe land was free, yet it cost their lives.
In miners lust for gold.A familys house was bought and sold, piece by piece.A widow staked her claim on a dollar and his name, so painfully.In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would moanas they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief.
Women are but vestiges of masculinity a follower of masculine pursuit. Indeed, the song is a call for women empowerment, that is, a call to recognize the contributions of women during the critical years of 1870 and 1880.
The progressive, harmonic nature of the tone is a form of metaphor depicting the terrible flight of women during the gold rush. While the men dig their fortunes, the wives were playing the roles of servants and sub slaves. It is impossible, from the view of a modern critic, to never see these social vagrancies. To who argue that the gold rush and its aftershocks were merely mens games is falling into error. Without the wife, the husband would suffer from the conjecturing pain of the West. It was not simply an account of madness and frustration, it was an account of incomplete historicity.
After the Mexican-American War, the United States acquired several territories from Mexico Texas, California, Nevada, and the Strait of Guadeloupe. These new acquisitions opened new opportunities for the Americans. At that time, much of the West was sparsely populated by Mexicans, Americans, and Indians. Land was a common commodity. The federal government made plans for the rapid urbanization and industrialization of these territories although opposition rocked the chambers of the US Congress. In 1840 there was widespread Indian rebellion in the area. The US army had to pacify the Indians before implementing the federal economic plans. About 20 years later, gold was discovered in California. There was a rapid population boom in that state. People flocked to the gold mines.
For some historians, the Westward movement was a masculine quest. The woman was limited to the activities of the household cooking, laundry, and planting. Indeed, the wife was considered an appendage of the husband in the pursuit of land and wealth. In the song Gold Rush Brides, women are depicted as an oppressed group a typical handmaid of men
Who were the homestead wivesWho were the gold rush bridesDoes anybody knowDo their works survive their yellow fever lives in the pages they wroteThe land was free, yet it cost their lives.
In miners lust for gold.A familys house was bought and sold, piece by piece.A widow staked her claim on a dollar and his name, so painfully.In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would moanas they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief.
Women are but vestiges of masculinity a follower of masculine pursuit. Indeed, the song is a call for women empowerment, that is, a call to recognize the contributions of women during the critical years of 1870 and 1880.
The progressive, harmonic nature of the tone is a form of metaphor depicting the terrible flight of women during the gold rush. While the men dig their fortunes, the wives were playing the roles of servants and sub slaves. It is impossible, from the view of a modern critic, to never see these social vagrancies. To who argue that the gold rush and its aftershocks were merely mens games is falling into error. Without the wife, the husband would suffer from the conjecturing pain of the West. It was not simply an account of madness and frustration, it was an account of incomplete historicity.
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