women pioneers

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women pioneers

Basketball belles

how two teams and one scrappy player put women's hoops on the map
Agnes Morley describes growing up on her family's ranch in New Mexico, attending school at Stanford University, and participating in the first basketball game played between two women's college teams on April 4, 1896.

Little author in the big woods

a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder
2016
A narrative portrait of the author of the Little House series details her real life as a young pioneer traveling west with her family and homesteading on new territories, revealing how her actual life differed from the adventures in her books.
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My ?ntonia

2000
In the late nineteenth century, a fourteen-year-old immigrant girl from Bohemia and a ten-year-old orphan boy arrive in Black Hawk, Nebraska, and in teaching each other form a friendship that will last a lifetime.
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Fearless Mary

Mary Fields, American stagecoach driver
2019
"The true story of Mary Fields, aka 'Stagecoach Mary,' a trailblazing African American woman who helped settle the American West"--Provided by the Publisher.

Sarah, plain and tall

1992
In 1910 an uncompromising New England spinster answers the ad placed by a grieving Kansas widower requesting a kind woman to share his life.

Prairie fires

the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
2017
An historical biography of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, using unpublished manuscripts, letter, diaries, and land and financial records to fill in the gaps not covered in her "Prairie" books.
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Pioneering women

2012
"Explores women pioneers, including the first women in the West, the difficult life on the frontier, working different jobs usually reserved for men, female outlaws, and how women in the Wild West brought about reform"--Provided by publisher.
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Calamity Jane

frontierswoman
Presents the life of colorful Wild West frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannary, known as Calamity Jane.

Women of the American West

2017
"Women played an essential role in the development of the West ... [This book] takes a look at the daring, inventive, and determined women that helped shape the nation"--Provided by publisher.

O pioneers!

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

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