women pioneers

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women pioneers

Women in the West

2003
Briefly explores what it was like for a woman to live and work in the Old West, including first-hand accounts about such things as making soap, clothing, and nutritious meals.

Roses for Mama

2002
Since the death of their parents, teenage Angela and her older brother have been providing the material needs of three younger siblings, but she fears for the future.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

a family collection
1993

My ?Antonia

2002
A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl named Antonia.

Basketball belles

how two teams and one scrappy player put women's hoops on the map
2011
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.

Grandma Essie's covered wagon

1993
Grandma Essie describes how her family left Missouri by covered wagon looking for a better life and lived in Kansas and Oklahoma before returning to Missouri.

Pioneering women of the Wild West

1995
Explores the experiences of women who lived on the American frontier as homesteaders, ranchers, outlaws, miners, and reformers, including Sacajawea, Narcissa Whitman, Calamity Jane, and Nellie Cashman.

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