Backcountry Western men insisted on courteous respect toward women.
Evidence
These men might have been excused for speaking in a somewhat free-and-easy tone to a lady riding alone, and in an unwonted fashion. Womanly dignity and manly respect for women are the salt of society in this wild West. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 91
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the frontier-courtesy theme in her other travel writing and connects to ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ — how solo women travelers navigated gendered expectation and found the frontier a place of freedom. — connects to: Wild West men showed unusual respectful courtesy toward the lone lady traveler — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 36
Related
- Wild West men showed unusual respectful courtesy toward the lone lady traveler (similarity 0.94)
- Western frontier men prized courage in women as their main protection. (similarity 0.83)
- Western pioneer men displayed crude domestic manners as a badge of identity (similarity 0.80)
- Frontier respect for a woman hinged on proven wilderness skill, not gender (similarity 0.79)
- Pioneer frontier wives regarded all courtesy and gentleness as sinful laziness. (similarity 0.79)
- Pioneer ruffians would not harm a woman of proven pluck (similarity 0.79)