Women of the frontier : 16 tales of trailblazing homesteaders, entrepreneurs, and rabble-rousers / Brandon Marie Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Brandon Marie.

Series:

Women of Action

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women pioneers--West (U.S.)--History--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Women pioneers.

West (U.S.)--History--Biography--Juvenile literature.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2013.

Summary:

Winner of:2014 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young PeopleNominated for:2014 YALSA Nonfiction Award Using journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam Colt, entrepreneur Clara Brown, army wife Frances Grummond, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, naturalist Martha Maxwell, missionary Narcissa Whitman, and political activist Mary Lease are introduced to readers through their harrowing stories of journeying across the plains and mountains to unknown land. Recounting the impact pioneers had on those who were already living in the region as well as how they adapted to their new lives and the rugged, often dangerous landscape, this exploration also offers resources for further study and reveals how these influential women tamed the Wild West..

Contents:

Front Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Author's Note; 1 Many a Weary Mile; Margret Reed: Surviving Starvation in the Sierra Nevada; Amelia Stewart Knight: On the Oregon Trail; 2 Oh, Give Me a Home; Narcissa Whitman: Alone, in the Thick Darkness of Heathendom; Miriam Davis Colt: An Experiment in Kansas; Frances Grummond: Army Wife in Wyoming; 3 A Wom an That Can Work; Luzena Stanley Wilson: California Gold Fever; Clara Brown: African American Pioneer; Bethenia Owens-Adair: Female Physician; 4 A nd Now the Fun Begins; Martha Dartt Maxwell: Colorado Naturalist

Charlotte "Lotta" Crabtree: "Golden Wonder" of the Stage5 Great Expect ations for the Future; Mary Elizabeth Lease: Political Firebrand; Carry Nation: "Hatchetation" Against the Devil's Brew; 6 Clash of Cultures; Rachel Parker Plummer and Cynthia Ann Parker: T he Captive and the "White Squaw"; Sarah Winnemucca: Life Among the Paiutes; Susette La Flesche: "An Indian Is a Person"; 7 Love Song to the West; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-883052-98-X

OCLC:

823723859