More than petticoats
Subtitle: Remarkable Kansas women
By: Gina Kaufmann
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Guilford, CT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780762760275
Subjects: Women; Biography; History
Other titles: Remarkable Kansas women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lucy Hobbs Taylor, the woman who pulled teeth; title: Carry Nation, evangelist, hatchet wielder, saloon smasher, frequent prisoner; title: Mary Elizabeth Lease, advocate for the people, lawyer for the poor; title: Lilla Day Monroe, suffragist and journalist, counting women's votes and stories; title: Susanna Madora Salter, the accidental Mayor of Argonia; title: Ann Clarke, escaped slave, seeker of freedom; title: Harvey girls, independent frontier women, serving meals and settling towns; title: Nora Holt, classical composer, Harlem renaissance notable, tabloid sweetheart; title: Ella Deloria, Sioux anthropologist, teacher, and novelist; title: Peggy Hull, foreign war correspondent, soldiering through adversity; title: Osa Johnson, bold adventurer, world traveler...and homebody at heart?; title: Amelia Earhart, celebrity, great unsolved mystery, and possible castaway.