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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird Publisher Comments In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote by Mary Hallock Foote Publisher Comments Starting with her nostalgically remembered childhood on a Quaker farm on the Hudson River, Mary Hallock Foote tells the story of her training as an artist in the 1860s and of her marriage to a mining engineer whose jobs took the young couple west in the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pioneer Doctor: The Story of a Woman's Work by Mari Grana Publisher Comments When Mollie stepped off the train in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1890, she knew she had to start a new life. She'd left her husband and his medical practice behind in Iowa, and with only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and a great deal of pride, she set... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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No Life for a Lady (Women of the West) by Agnes Mo Cleaveland Publisher Comments When Agnes Morley Cleaveland was born on a New Mexico cattle ranch in 1874, the term "Wild West" was a reality, not a cliché. In those days cowboys didn't know they were picturesque, horse rustlers were to be handled as seemed best on the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jessie Benton Fremont: A Woman Who Made History by Catherine Phillips Publisher Comments A favorite of President Andrew Jackson and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, Jessie Benton was acquainted with the famous from childhood. When the vivacious belle met John C. Frémont, “the handsomest young man who ever... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Womens Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel Publisher Comments More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oklahoma Western Biographies #26: Open Range by Darlis A Miller Publisher Comments Agnes Morley Cleaveland found lasting fame after publishing her memoir, No Life for a Lady, in 1941. Her account of growing up on a cattle ranch in west-central New Mexico captivated readers from coast to coast, and it remains in print to this day. In... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Toward the Setting Sun: Pioneer Girls Traveling the Overland Trails by Mary Barmey Obrien Publisher Comments Focusing on the lives of ten pioneer girls this fascinating book combines diary excerpts and descriptive... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Covered Wagon Women Volume 4 by Kenneth L Holmes Publisher Comments In 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diaries and letters of six pioneer women describe the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 (Histories of the American Frontier) by Sandra L Myres Publisher Comments Myres uses extensive source material by and about women to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Lady's Experience in the Wild West in 1883 by Rose Pender Publisher Comments The aristocratic Rose Pender and her husband, James, were among the thousands of English travelers in the American West during the latter half of the nineteenth century. This is Pender's lively account of a grand tour in 1883 of Texas, California, Salt... (read more) List Price $8.76 Your price: $7.77 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Economy Editions) by Isabella L Bird Publisher Comments In 1873, a middle-aged Englishwoman toured the Colorado Rockies on horseback — alone, for the most part. Painting an intimate portrait of the "Wild West," Bird wrote eloquently of flora and fauna, isolated settlers and assorted refugees from... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West (Women in the West) by Joanne Wilke Publisher Comments In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand unpaved miles on an extended car-camping trip through six national parks, “without a man or a gun along.” It... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis Publisher Comments Plain Anne Ellis builds on Life of an Ordinary Woman, Anne Ellis’s memoir of life in one of Colorado’s most overlooked regions, the San Luis Valley. Despite use and settlement by Utes, Hispanics, Jicarilla Apaches, and Anglos, little has been... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman by Julie Roy Jeffrey Publisher Comments Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, were pioneer missionaries to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. Narcissa grew up in western New York State, her values and attitudes carefully shaped by her mother. Very much a child of the Second... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West by Harriet Backus Publisher Comments The popular autobiographical account of a pioneer woman's amusing and often difficult experiences in and around the Tomboy Mine above Telluride, the copper mines of British Columbia, the remote regions of Idaho, and finally Leadville.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Magnificent Mountain Women: Adventures in the Colorado Rockies by Janet Robertson Publisher Comments Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sister To the Sioux : the Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-1891 (Rev 04 Edition) by Elaine Goodale Eastman Publisher Comments In 1885 a genteel New England girl traveled to the western frontier to open a school on the Great Sioux Reservation. For six years, Elaine Goodale Eastman taught, hunted with, and lived among the Lakotas, who were experiencing profound changes as... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Kiowa: A Woman Missionary in Indian Territory by Isabel Crawford Publisher Comments Near the close of the nineteenth century, Isabel Crawford went to the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation in Oklahoma and founded the Saddle Mountain Baptist Mission. This book, written in journal form, begins with her arrival at the reservation in 1896 and ... (read more) List Price $18.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Absaraka: Home of the Crows by Margaret Carrington Publisher Comments On July 17, 1866, two soldiers wagoners were killed by Sioux Indians. In the next two weeks, fourteen more men died in Sioux attacks. The attacks continued through the summer and fall. On December 21, disaster struck. Recklessly pursuing Indians across a... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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