"This 'patchwork' of women's words and pictures captures the pioneer experience memorably and elegantly. Just as a quilt is made up of many small pieces, this book is based on a multitude of individual stories and a rich range of source material".--Susan Armitage. coeditor of "The Women's West". 175 illustrations.
"We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made," wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, was headed for Salt Lake City. Her cultured, ...
Enriched by over 200 vintage photos, "Frontier Children" is a visual and verbal montage erases the stereotypes and brings to life the infinite variety of the experience of growing up in the 19th-century American West.
Calling on 10 years of research, the authors have compiled letters, diaries, journals, photographs, business records, genealogies, interview excerpts, and archives to document the lives of women who settled the West.
Presents biographies of nine women active between 1880 and 1930 who made outstanding contributions in the fields of medicine, religion, politics, business, arts and letters, education, athletics, and social action.
Moving personal account of frontier women left behind in Minnesota when their husbands went west to prospect for gold in Colorado and Montana in the mid-1800s.
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