| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.1

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Book Review

Emma Newman: A Frontier Woman Minister. By Randi Jones Walker. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000. xxi + 200 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Through the lenses of gender and geography, Randi Jones Walker examines the career of Emma Newman, a New England woman who went west in the 1870s to work as a Congregational minister. Walker presents Newman's career as a case study that illustrates modes of women's leadership in religious institutions on the frontier. She argues that as Newman worked to mold western communities in New England's image, she and her ministry were shaped by the West. 1

Walker uses Newman's diaries and sermons, as well as the work of historians, anthropologists, and theologians to place her beliefs and experiences in the context of her time and place. She connects Newman's career with the larger story of religion on the frontier and contends that, as a woman pastor, Newman was representative of that story rather than peripheral to it. An ordained minister herself, Walker brings to her study the perspective of her own training and experiences. . . .

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