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The Magnificent Mountain Women: Adventures in the Colorado Rockies (Women of the West) 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 $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains by Glenda Riley Publisher Comments This book gives a comparative view of women on the prairie and the plains.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tenderfoot Bride: Tales from an Old Ranch by Clarice E Richards Publisher Comments Maxine Benson's introduction expands on the ranching and political activities of the close-knit Richards family and on a well-publicized courtroom trial in 1902 pitting Jarvis against a neighboring rancher. Maxine Benson, an authority on Colorado history,... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Unsettling the West Eliza Farnham & Geor by Jo Ann Levy Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Always outspoken, often outrageous, and fervent on behalf of their cause -- prison reform, women's rights, Spiritualism, phrenology, abolitionism, suffrage -- these admirable idealists, Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce, believed not... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson (Women in the West) by Alice Kirk Grierson Publisher Comments The modern woman who tries to juggle private and public roles with equilibrium will discover a spiritual ancestor in Alice Kirk Grierson. The colonel's lady spent most of her life at army outposts on the nineteenth-century western frontier, where she... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Butter in the Well: Historical Diary 1868-1888 by Linda K Hubalek Publisher Comments Read the account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, an emigrant wife who recounts, through her diary, how she and her family built up a farm on the unsettled Kansas prairie.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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A Beautiful, Cruel Country by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce Publisher Comments Arizona's Arivaca Valley lies only a short distance from the Mexican border and is a rugged land in which to put down stakes. When Arizona Territory was America's last frontier, this area was homesteaded by Anglo and Mexican settlers alike, who often... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison by James E Seaver Publisher Comments Mary Jemison was one of the most famous white captives who, after being captured by Indians, chose to stay and live among her captors. In the midst of the Seven Years War(1758), at about age fifteen, Jemison was taken from her western Pennsylvania home... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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We Sagebrush Folks by Annie Pik Greenwood Publisher Comments This intimate record of an acute mind and sensitive spirit to the joys and sorrows, poverty, and personalities describes the author's fifteen years as a farm woman on the last American frontier.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.50 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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High-Spirited Women of the West (Women of the West) by Anne Seagraves Publisher Comments Profiles of ten courageous women who helped shape history are told in this inspiring and entertaining book. These high-spirited women left conventional roles behind, becoming America's early feminists. Some were bold and rebellious like Belle Starr and... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Heart of the Trail: The Stories of Eight Wagon Train Women by Mary Barmey Obrien Publisher Comments In 'Heart of the Trail' Mary Barmeyer O'Brien beautifully captures the triumphs and tribulations of eight women who crossed the American frontier by wagon. While their stories are widely different, each of these remarkable women was inspiring, courageous,... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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By Grit & Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the American West (Notable Westerners) by Glenda Riley Synopsis From Wild West performer Annie Oakley and the notorious Calamity Jane to entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant and reformer Abigail Scott Dunway, these women of the hardscrabble nineteenth-century West played prominent and influential roles.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 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 Frontier Lady: Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California by Sarah Royce Publisher Comments Since it was first published in 1932, A Frontier Lady has held a high and special place in the literature of Americas westward migration. Written in the 1880s at the request of her son, the philosopher and educator Josiah Royce, Sarah Royce's narrative... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866 by Mollie Dorsey Sanford Publisher Comments Mollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. More particularly, it is the story of Mollie herself—just turned eighteen when the Dorseys left Indianapolis for... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Trailblazers: Twenty Great Western Women (Great American Women Series) by Karen Mulford Synopsis From Sacagawea to Dorothea Lange to Sandra Day O'Connor, these twenty remarkable women followed their dreams, challenged convention, and created new opportunities for American Women--yesterday and today. Organized chronologically from 1805 to the present,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.98 Used - Trade Paper
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The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West by Chris Enss Publisher Comments “NO WOMEN NEED APPLY.” These four discouraging words of admonition often greeted female physicians looking for jobs in the frontier-era West. Despite the dire need for medical help, it seemed most trappers, miners, and emigrants would rather... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Uncommon Common Women: Ordinary Lives of the West by Anne M Butler Synopsis Butler and Siporin are not interested in promoting the stereotypes of the West, but rather in bringing notice to the forgotten roles and gritty realities of women's lived experience.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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