Women of the frontier : 16 tales of trailblazing homesteaders, entrepreneurs, and rabble-rousers
(2013)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
Y/BIOGRAPHY/978.033/MILLER,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2013]
©2013
©2013
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
ix, 246 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, photographs ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781883052973 (hardcover) 1350759, 1883052971 (hardcover), 9781883052973, 1883052971 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Interior design: Sarah Olson ; Map design: Chris Erichsen"--Title page verso
Drawing on journal entries, letters, and song lyrics to evoke the courage and spirit of female pioneers, a collection of portraits traces the lives of such individuals as Amelia Stewart Knight, Miriam Colt, and Clara Brown
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CONTENTS
Many a weary mile.
Margret Reed: surviving starvation in the Sierra Nevada ;
Amelia Stewart Knight: on the Oregon trail --
Oh, give me a home.
Narcissa Whitman: alone, in the thick darkness of heathendom ;
Miriam Davis Colt: an experiment in Kansas ;
Frances Grummond: Army wife in Wyoming --
A woman that can work.
Luzena Stanley Wilson: California gold fever ;
Clara Brown: African American pioneer ;
Bethenia Owens-Adair: female physician --
And now the fun begins.
Martha Dartt Maxwell: Colorado naturalist ;
Charlotte "Lotta" Crabtree: "Golden wonder" of the stage --
Great expectations for the future.
Mary Elizabeth Lease: political firebrand ;
Carry Nation: "Hachetation" against the devil's brew --
Clash of cultures.
Rachel Parker Plummer and Cynthia Ann Parker: the captive and the "white squaw" ;
Sarah Winnemucca: Life among the Paiutes ;
Susette La Flesche: "an Indian is a person" --
Love song to the West