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Belle Starr and Her Times: The Literature, the Facts, and the Legends
by Glenn Shirley  Review "For aficionados of the outlaw-West, Belle Starr and Her Times will make intriguing reading. Like a good detective, Shirley has assembled the major writings and legends concerning Belle Starr, searched them for similarities and disparities, and compared...
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Best of Covered Wagon Women
by Kenneth L Holmes Book News Annotation Eight firsthand accounts of women who braved the overland trails during the great 19th-century westward migration are collected here. The accounts were selected for the power with which they portray the hardship, adventure, and family and friendship...
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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...
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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 occasion...
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Life of an Ordinary Woman (90 Edition)
by Anne Ellis Publisher Comments In Anne Ellis, readers will discover the perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary, a pioneer who, "like the most valued of friends, is a woman of wry wit, plain courage, keen perceptions" (Molly Gloss). Powerfully conjuring up the world of the...
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We Sagebrush Folks
by Annie Pik Greenwood Synopsis 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....
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Covered Wagon Women Volume 10
by Kenneth L Holmes Publisher Comments Forty years after the legendary overland travels of Oregon pioneers in the 1840s, Lucy Clark Allen wrote, “the excitement continues.” Economic hard times in Minnesota sent Allen and her husband to Montana in hopes of evading the droughts...
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Women of the West)
by Elinore P Stewart Publisher Comments Elinore Pruitt, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she would need to know about homesteading a place for herself. In 1909 she went to work for Clyde...
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So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining & Ranching Frontier (Women in the West)
by Ruth Barne Moynihan Publisher Comments In this new and enlarged edition the editors have built on an already strong collection with four new accounts. Colorado pioneer Augusta Tabor gives a sense of the heady days as Leadville became a major mining center. Abigail Duniway describes the...
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Women and Conquest of California, 1542-1840 (01 Edition)
by Virginia Marie Bouvier Synopsis This book tells the hidden story of women during the missionization of California. It shows what it was like for women to live and work on that frontier--and how race, religion, age, and ethnicity shaped female experiences. It explores the suppression of...
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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
by Isabella Bird Publisher Comments Women were scarce enough in the West of the late nineteenth century, and a middle-ages English lady traveling alone, by horseback, was a real phenomenon. It was during the autumn and early winter of 1873 that Isabella Bird made this extended tour of the...
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Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin
by Judy Nolte Temple Synopsis Unravels the psyche of Colorado's most adored adulteress...
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Frontier Women : the Trans-mississippi West, 1840-1880 (79 Edition)
by Julie Roy Jeffrey Publisher Comments In this new edition of a classic work, Julie Roy Jeffrey maintains the essential core of her account of the extraordinarily diverse contributions women made to the development of the American frontier. Jeffrey has expanded her original analysis to...
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My Girlhood Among Outlaws
by Lily Klasner Synopsis Born in Texas in 1862, Lily Klasner assumed leadership of her family at the age of 13, after her father was murdered. In this memoir, Lily recalls her experiences with Billy the Kid and other desperados--who often stopped over at the Klasner ranch in...
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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...
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No Time on My Hands
by Grace Snyder Publisher Comments When Grace Snyder, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, wrote these reminiscences in her eightieth year, she felt she had been blessed "by having no time on my hands." The story of her busy life begins on the high plains of Nebraska, where her...
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Tomboy Bride : a Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West (69 Edition)
by Harriet Fish Backus Synopsis A true pioneer of the West, Harriet Backus writes about her amusing and often challenging experiences with heart-felt emotion and vivid detail. New foreword by Pam Houston and afterword by author's grandson Rob Walton are featured....
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Mollie : the Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866 (59 Edition)
by Mollie D. 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...
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Harvey Girl
by Sheila Wood Foard Publisher Comments Wanted: Young women, 18 to 30 years of age, of good moral character, attractive and intelligent, as waitresses in the Harvey Eating Houses on the Santa Fe Railroad in the West. Good wages with room and meals furnished. Liberal tips customary. Experience...
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Wild Bunch Women
by Michael Rutter Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-128) and index....
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