| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 18371873. By Angela Boswell. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. ix + 191 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Colorado County, Texas, is a fascinating historical place, as Angela Boswell demonstrates in Her Act and Deed. Placing women at the center of her analysis, Boswell teases out the intricacies of Colorado County life not only as a "rural Southern" community but as a growing western community as well. She points out that, although Colorado County aptly displayed rural southern characteristics, its development was certainly unique in the western characteristics that grew as a result of interactions between people, governments, and legal institutions. This development took place on men's terms, but women brought into question the dynamics of what community-building meant in Texas. . . .

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