Signed articles with notes on sources. Historical significance, rather than eminence or prominence, was the principal criterion for inclusion. Numerous figures of regional or local importance. Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography 3 vols. Over 4,500 entries, bibliographies, and index.
Names are cross-referenced.
REF CT3260 .N57 edited by Edward T. James and Janet Wilson James. Only one group of women, wives of presidents of the United States, were admitted on their husband's credentials. For others, the criterion was distinction in their own right. A scholarly work with bibliographies. Forms a supplement to Notable American Women, adding biographies of 442 women who died during the 1951-75 period.