TY - JOUR
AU - Kropp, Phoebe
AB - SECTION I LEISURE AND SPECTATORSHIP WILDERNESS WIVES AND DISHWASHING HUSBANDS: COMFORT AND THE DOMESTIC ARTS OF CAMPING IN AMERICA, 1880-1910 By Phoebe Kropp University of Colorado, Boulder When Grace Mitchell's husband proposed a camping vacation in the Bitterroot Mountains with another couple during the summer of 1905, she was suspicious. What would they do? How would they live without familiar comforts? As she later recalled, "The first suggestion of living for over three months in complete isolation was not very enthusiastically received by two young married women, accustomed to spending their vacations at a fashionable hotel in the typical East­ em summer resort." After a few weeks of mulling it over, she became intrigued with the idea and agreed to go. But when the moment arrived she found her' self panic-stricken. "To sit in a New York library and talk about the delights of camp life, the cold nights, the sleeping on boughs, the limited menu, the rough trails and obligatory male attire, was one thing; but to sit on the piazza of the Rivalli Hotel in Hamilton, Montana, and realize that it was to be our last night of civilization for many weeks, was quite another."! Mitchell as 
TI - Wilderness Wives and Dishwashing Husbands: Comfort and the Domestic Arts of Camping in America, 1880–1910
JF - Journal of Social History
DO - 10.1353/jsh.0.0228
DA - 2009-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/wilderness-wives-and-dishwashing-husbands-comfort-and-the-domestic-duq9RMfFH0
SP - 5
EP - 30
VL - 43
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -