women pioneers

Presents the history of the West through eight biographies of women, including Susan Magoffin, Lotta Crabtree, and Biddy Mason.

Chronicles the life of children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, from her childhood in Wisconsin through her days on the prairie to her death in 1957 at the age ninety.

Presents a biography of Narcissa Whitman, a missionary who was killed, along with her husband and twelve others, by Native Americans along the Oregon Trail.

Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

Describes the lives and experiences of women in the nineteenth-century American west, including immigrants, African Americans, and Native Americans.

Biography of the first African American woman to carry the United States mail.

Describes the daily life and responsibilities of women pioneers on the Western frontier. Includes chapters on education and religion, entertainment, and on independent pioneer women.

Contains the fictional journal of Sarah Prine, in which she records the events of her life in the Arizona Territories from 1881 to 1901, as a child, a fiery young woman, and a caring mother.

Contains profiles and photographs of twenty-three women who sought their fortunes in the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush age of the late ninteenth and early twentieth century.

A journal account of a wealthy, educated pioneer woman who, with her husband, joined the gold rush to California and raised a family in the American West.