Book
Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
Publication Information
Salt Lake City, UT : Shadow Mountain, [2016]
Physical Description
x, 198 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Summary
Monson shares the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched helpless as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter six decades later. Charlotte hid her gender to escape a life of poverty and became the greatest stagecoach driver that ever lived. A Native American, Gertrude fought to give her people a voice and to educate leaders about the ways and importance of America's native people. All endured hardships, overcame obstacles, and changed the world.
Contents
- Nellie Cashman : gold rush "boomer"
- Aunt Clara Brown : a woman in a thousand
- Abigail Scott Duniway : Oregon Trail suffragette
- María Amparo Ruiz de Burton : first Mexican-American female novelist
- Luzena Stanley Wilson : frontier entreprenuer
- Mother Jones : she could not be silenced
- Zitkala-Sa : Dakota Sioux rights activist and writer
- Mary Hallock Foote : mining town author and illustrator
- Martha Hughes Cannon : frontier doctor and first female state senator
- Donaldina Cameron : the most loved and feared woman in Chinatown
- Charley Parkhurst : most celebrated stagecoach driver in the West
- Makaopiopio : the spirit of Aloha.