美国西部牧区妇女在拓荒时期的重要贡献

Range Women's Contribution to the American West in the Pioneering Period

美国内战以后,一个疆域相当于半个欧洲的"牧牛王国"在其西部的大平原上兴起。它是美国西部拓荒时期三大行业性开发的重要组成部分,是当时最赚钱的行业之一。牧业边疆成了史家研究的"热门"课题。牛仔和牧场主备受关注。妇女是牧区社会的重要成员,但对她们的研究较少。然而,牧区妇女对"牧牛王国"的兴起和牧区社会的进步作出了独特的贡献。

A ＂Cattle Kingdom＂ with a territory half the size of Europe rose in the Great Plains of the American West after the Civil War. Husbandry was important component of the three major branches of industrial development as well as one of the most profitable businesses in the American West during the Pioneering Period. Although the husbandry frontier has been a popular topic for research among historians with the cowboy and the cattlemen attracting a great deal of attention, little research has been done on the range women, important members of the society then, whose contribution to the rise of the Cattle Kingdom and the progress of the range society should not be neglected.