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Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her little girl before reaching Oregon. Still others make themselves heard, starting out from...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The Civil War created countless spinsters and widows. Anna Olson was one of them. With no prospects for marriage and family, Anna pins her future on the frontier and heads west to stake a claim on the wide-open prairies. 'Most women go from their father's house to their husband's house,' Anna said. 'Here, I have my own house. I am my own person.' But the Dakota Plains are not empty. Anna's new life collides with a Lakota warrior. Two Hawks MacKenzie,...
446) Women of the West
Author
Pub. Date
©1990
Description
Describes the work of the early women homesteaders and presents brief biographies of several women prominent in Western history, including Sacajawea, Annie Oakley, and Narcissa Whitman.
447) Love's abiding joy
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Missie and Willie have set up a homestead and are starting a family. The new railroad will make it possible for Missie's father to visit. When the reunion is interrupted by tragedy, this family's faith and love are once again challenged.
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Morgan offers an authentic and deliciously humorous account of the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North. At the turn of the century, tens of thousands of Americans left their homes, escaping a worldwide depression & the restraints of the Victorian Era, to stampede to Alaska & the Yukon, where millions of dollars in gold was being discovered in remote, subartic mining camps. Women accompanied...
451) Calamity Jane
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The delightfully tall tale of how Martha Jane Cannary came to be known as Calamity Jane, the toughest woman in the old wild West. Additional features to aid comprehension include background information and historical context of the tale, and an introduction to the author and illustrator. Author/Illustrator biography Educational front/back matter Tall tales thrive on exaggeration and embellishment, making them some of our nation's most cherished creative...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"When Calls the Heart" tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a strong-willed teacher who has forgone the life of the big city and found a job, a home - and a bit uof unexpected romance with a handsome Mountie named Jack - in the small frontier town of Hope Valley. But life on the frontier can hand you many tough turns, and so it is for Jack and Elizabeth as they face their very different upbringings, the pressures put upon...
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Description
"Handwritten in pencil, on a school tablet, Martha's story is a remarkable account of life on the Western frontier between the 1850s and the turn of the century. She provides us with an authentic version of what an ordinary girl from a rural Missouri family experienced on her wagon trip West. She furnishes us an eye-witness glimpse of how pioneer women saw the beauty and bleakness of the frontier wilderness. And she gives an insight into how these...
457) A pioneer woman
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
Describes the daily life and responsibilities of women pioneers on the Western frontier. Includes chapters on education and religion, entertainment, and on independent pioneer women.
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