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Broad History

Isabelle Roughol

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Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 10

The history you think you know, with women in it this time

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https://www.broadhistory.com/membership
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https://www.broadhistory.com
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https://www.broadhistory.com/how-chinese-women-were-barred-from-the-american-dream
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https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/broadhistory
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https://bookshop.org/shop/broadhistory
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https://bookshop.org/a/79408/9781668004340
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgoTjX-kkUQ
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Score global : 79%

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The homesteaders trad wives would rather forget about (Megan Kate Nelson, part 2)

Episode 9

Saturday, June 6, 2026 • Duration 36:24

In part 2 of our exploration of the American frontier, Megan Kate Nelson introduces two women who belie the homesteader image conservative "trad wives" like to harken back to. Polly Bemis was a Chinese immigrant who built a life and a community in Idaho, despite intense prejudice and stringent anti-Chinese immigration policies. Ella Watson was a self-made homesteader and small rancher, a so-called cattle queen who got on the wrong side of cattle barons in Wyoming and paid the price.

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Isabelle Roughol - Host
Megan Kate Nelson - Guest

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Jump to:

(00:00) - 08 Megan Kate Nelson part 2
(01:18) - Start of interview
(01:46) - Introducing Polly Bemis
(03:04) - The majority-Chinese American West
(06:55) - Polly Bemis traveled without moving
(09:12) - Chinese women were the first targets of US anti-immigrant policy
(09:50) - The aggressive anti-Chinese immigration policies of the United States
(12:13) - How big government made the West for white men
(13:43) - Ella Watson's broken American dream
(14:25) - The cattle queens

🇺🇸 🇬🇧 (Megan Kate Nelson's The Westerners is only available in the US)(Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores.)

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