women pioneers

A series of linked poems presented as dramatic monologues that give voice to women and children living in and around the mythical frontier town of Cottonwood. Includes archival photographs and a map.

Profiles more than one hundred women pioneers spanning more than four centuries.

Describes the lives and varied experiences of some of the many women who traveled across the American West, including Cynthia Ann Parker, Mary Richardson Walker, Harriet Sanders, Maria Virginia Slade, and Elizabeth Custer.

Presents a short biography about ex-slave Clara Brown who traveled to Colorado to begin a new life and look for her daughter who was sold as a small child, and describes how she became rich enough to help other freed slaves after the Civil War to also begin new lives.

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

Introduces the life of the writer whose pioneer life on the American prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books.

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

Offers the writings and recollections of seven women who traveled to the American West in 1851, taken from their letters and diaries, and reflecting the political, social, and economic forces of the era.