women pioneers

An adaptation of a diary of Amelia Stewart Knight written while she, her husband, and seven children journeyed from Iowa to the Oregon Territory in 1853.

A direct look into the pioneer lives of those who travelled the Oregon Trail during the 1800s.

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.

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.

Uses letters and journal entries to present first-hand accounts from sixteen pioneer women living in the Wild West.

In 1758, at the age of sixteen, Mary Jemison is taken by a Shawnee raiding party and gradually becomes integrated into her new family and culture.

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.

Examines the roles that pioneer women played in the west, and describes the hardships they endured, challenges they faced, and more.

Eighteen-year-old Callie Wade, along with her father, brother, and sister Rose, set off from Independence, Missouri in 1859 as part of a wagon train headed for California, and experience loss, hope, and love along the way.

A collection of interviews with forty-seven women about frontier life in Colorado. Explores such topics as medical care, family life, work, and childbirth.