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Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women

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  • 920.72 M755 (OSH)

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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.

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