Women of the Frontier 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers

Summary: In 1849 Luzena Wilson set out for California in a covered wagon with her husband and two little boys, hungry to join the tide of gold seekers. Like thousands of others, Luzena undertook the nearly 2,000 mile journey to an unknown land, where she'd rise from flood and fire, a survivor of the wild frontier. From months on the trail to life in a sod hut, western women adapted to their new lives and found beauty in the rugged, often dangerous landscape. They helped tame the W.

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ISBN: 9781883052980 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 188305298X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781613740002 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 161374000X (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (258 p.)
Publisher: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2013.

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Formatted Contents Note:

Front Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Author's Note; 1 Many a Weary Mile; Margret Reed: Surviving Starvation in the Sierra Nevada; Amelia Stewart Knight: On the Oregon Trail; 2 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; 3 A Wom an That Can Work; Luzena Stanley Wilson: California Gold Fever; Clara Brown: African American Pioneer; Bethenia Owens-Adair: Female Physician; 4 A nd Now the Fun Begins; Martha Dartt Maxwell: Colorado Naturalist.

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