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Pioneer women : voices from the Kansas frontier / Joanna L. Stratton ; introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
LIBRA HQ1438.K2 S77 1982
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stratton, Joanna L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women pioneers--Kansas--History.
- Women pioneers.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Kansas.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- West (U.S.)--Biography.
- West (U.S.).
- Pioneers--Kansas--History.
- Women--Kansas--History.
- Kansas.
- West United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 319 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st Touchstone ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 1982, ©1981.
- Summary:
- A book about the life of pioneer women in Kansas.
- Contents:
- To the stars through the wilderness : the journey
- Homes of puncheon, homes of sod : the settlement
- Aprons and plows : daily life on the prairie
- Days of valor : fighting the wild
- Days of darkness : fighting the elements
- The clashing of cultures : Indians
- A social people
- A prairie childhood
- Classrooms and schoolmarms
- The frontier church
- The frontier town
- The cow town
- The immigrant community : Victoria
- The wounds of war
- The woman crusaders : temperance and suffrage.
- Notes:
- "A Touchstone book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-307) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 0671447483
- 9780671447489
- 0671226118
- 9780671226114
- OCLC:
- 12990054
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