women pioneers

Describes some of the famous women of the nineteenth-century American West including Laura Ingalls Wilder, Annie Oakley, Maggie Brown, and Calamity Jane.

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

Presents the letters of a woman who made a life for herself and her daughter by homesteading in Wyoming in the early years of the twentieth century.

The story of the women who traveled to Oregon 150 years ago. Includes a guide to historical sites along the Oregon Trail that recognize women's history.

Nineteenth century frontier women.

Contains a collection of letters written by the author to a former employer in Denver over the course of several years, in which she describes her frontier life homesteading in Burnt Fork, Wyoming.

A biography of the author of The yearling, which won a Pulitzer Prize.

Chronicles the life of Anne Bailey, focusing on the years she served as a scout carrying messages to troops moving throughout the frontier and tracking enemy movements during the Revolutionary War.