Women in the West

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Women and nature

saving the "Wild" West
1999
Profiles the women who helped safeguard the American West and explains why many of those women were not given recognition for their contributions to the development of the West.

The blue tattoo

the life of Olive Oatman
2009
Chronicles the life of Olive Oatman, an Illinois Mormon who was abducted, along with her younger sister, by Native Americans when she was thirteen-years-old.

So much to be done

women settlers on the mining and ranching frontier
1990
Nineteenth century frontier women.
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