Book signing with Amy Wink

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Book signing with Amy Wink for her new book, "Tandem Lives: The Frontier Texas Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree, 1856-1884"
from the book jacket: "The mythology of the frontier Texas woman portrays her as fiercely independent, strong willed, and adventurous. This eye-opening book, however, offers a far more complex and intimate version of women's cultural experiences in mid-nineteenth-century Texas through these diaries. Both women were the sequential wives of Dr. John W. Embree of Belton, a physician, slaveholder, farmer, merchant, and man of mercurial temperament. Their diaries reveal the social and personal challenges women experienced in a region beset first by the Civil War and then by Reconstruction and offer insights into the two women's struggles to survive as battered wives in a society that offered little support - and less chance of excape - for women bound by 19th-century ideas about gender roles."