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Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
by Joanna Stratton  Publisher Comments From a rediscovered collection of priceless autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of pioneer women, Joanna Stratton has made a remarkable and widely celebrated book. Never before has there been such a detailed record of women's courage, such a...
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The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West (Women of the West)
by Dee Brown Publisher Comments All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola...
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
by Stewart Elinore Prui Publisher Comments In a rich blend of memoir and meditation, Abbott focuses her graceful and witty attention on mothers and daughters of the South. Theirs is a world of red dirt and backbreaking chores and roof-raising revival meetings - a far cry from the magnolias and...
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Rachel Calofs Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains
by Rachel Calof Publisher Comments In 1894, 18-year-old Rachel Kahn traveled from Russia to the U.S. for an arranged marriage to Abraham Calof. As North Dakota homesteaders, Rachel and Abraham carved out a life, enduring many hardships. Never sentimental, her memoir is a vital record of...
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon: Women Soldiers and Patriots of the Western Frontier
by Joann Chartier Publisher Comments From the earliest days of the western frontier, women heeded the call to go west along with their husbands, sweethearts, and parents. While many of these women were attached to the army camps and outposts that dotted the prairies, others were active...
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Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan
by Max Evans Publisher Comments "Madam Millie contains sordid details and frank language that will make many readers blush. It is unvarnished language, as recorded directly from Millie by Max Evans over a period of almost twenty years. It presents a complete picture of the business of...
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Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin
by Judy Nolte Temple Publisher Comments Unravels the psyche of Colorado's most adored...
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader (88 Edition)
by Elinore P. Stewart Publisher Comments '\"Peopled with the kinds of characters most novelists only dream of\"(Christian Science Monitor), this classic account of American frontier living captures the rambunctious spirit of a pioneer who set out in 1909 to prove that a woman could ranch...
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Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 (Histories of the American Frontier)
by Sandra L Myres Publisher Comments Professor Myres gives frontier women a voice they never had. She uses extensive new material by and about womenletters, journals, and reminiscences from over 400 collections to study the impact of the frontier on womens lives and the role of women in the...
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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 cliche. In those days cowboys didn't know they were picturesque, horse rustlers were to be handled as seemed best on the occasion, and...
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Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America (Civil War America)
by Jane Schultz Publisher Comments As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial...
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Wild Women of the Old West
by Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-214) and index....
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Women of the West (98 Edition)
by Gray Publisher Comments The J030136independent-minded western woman was often eclipsed in popular literature by sensations like Calamity Jane and Belle Starr. Dorothy Gray looks at the actual lives of women who made their own way out west.<P>Starting with Sacajawea, the...
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The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate, 1889
by George W Hufsmith Publisher Comments The Lynching of Cattle Kate (Ellen Watson) and Jim Averell by six prominent cattlemen filled the pages of Wyoming newspapers in 1889.<P>The popular myth of the West was that Watson was a prostitute who galloped across the prairies and bartered sex...
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Going Over East: Reflections of a Woman Rancher
by Linda M Hasselstrom Publisher Comments An honest portrayal of contemporary life on the plains from an award-winning author. Hasselstrom structures her narration around the opening and closing of gates as she goes "over east" en route to the summer pasture. With each stop, she makes a...
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So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier
by Ruth B Moynihan Publisher Comments The genuine creative achievements of nineteenth-century western women have often been obscured by sentimental tributes to their devotion and diligence, while men are praised as pathfinders, entrepreneurs, and community builders. But the nineteen...
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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....
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The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West
by Lesley Poling-Kempes Publisher Comments Interviews, historical research, and photos recreate the Harvey Girl experience of women who came to the west to work as waitresses, but many stayed and settled, founding cattle and mining towns....
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Maverick Women: 19th Century Women Who Kicked Over the Traces
by Frances Laurence Synopsis They were scholars, they were saints, they were sinners... They were determined. In a time when a woman's mind was kept as tightly laced as her corset, these females went against family, friends and convention to blaze trails for their sisters to come...
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Women of the West
by Cathy Luchetti Publisher Comments A myth-shattering look at the women who helped to settle the West, told through their own words and illustrated with 150 period photographs. This is American history, not as it was romanticized, but as it was lived. "An authentic, refreshing, and even...
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