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    In Their Own Words: Diaries of 19th Century Women

    Tempe Historical Museum

    March 12, 2008

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    The Tempe Historical Society Speakers Program presents 'In Their Own Words: Diaries of 19th Century Women.' Discover what it was like to be a woman traveling on the Oregon Trail, the California Trail or the Southern Route to California in the mid-19th Century. Learn about who these women were and how they responded to uprooting their lives. Between 1840 and 1870, more than a quarter million Americans moved west across the continent. They were searching to find free land, to strike it rich and to provide a better life. Some went for adventure, for the new and exotic experience and 'to see the elephant.' But women often went because they had no choice but to follow their husbands, fathers or brothers who had determined to leave settled areas behind and seek their fortune in the West. As shapers of families, women clung, almost possessively, to two things: traditional roles and traditional networks of support. They have been described as 'ordinary women, caught up in a momentous event of history.'
    Since retirement in 1998 as National Register Coordinator for the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, and in 2000 as Director of the Arizona Historical Society Museum in Papago Park, Reba Wells Grandrud has continued her devotion to the preservation of history: local, state and regional. She is currently a consultant in historic preservation and oral history and is an active board member for a wide range of nonprofits, including the Arizona History Convention, Arizona State Committee on Trails, Anza National Historic Trail Advisory Council, Old Spanish Trail Association, Sunnyslope Historical Society and Pioneer Cemetery Association. She is a native of New Mexico and holds degrees from the University of New Mexico in education, Southwest history and history of the American West. She has lived in Arizona since January 1982.

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      Tickets: Free Admission

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    • Dates & Times

      Dates:
      March 12, 2008

      Times:
      Wednesday 11:30am

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      Tempe Historical Museum

      809 East Southern Avenue Tempe, AZ 85282

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      Tempe

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