Amazing Women In the Old West
By: Alton Pryor
Publisher: Stagecoach Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Roseville, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781495230820
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Biography; Women; History
Notes: From the back cover: It wasn't the men that settled the West. it was the women! The Old West was a forbidding territory. Deciding to pack up all your earthly belongings and head into the unknown was not an easy decision to make. It was a harder decision to make for the women than it was for the men. But once they were committed to it, most of the credit for settling the west must go to the women. It was the women who dug in and tended the sick, planted fruits and vegetables, cooked and cleaned and fed the gold miners and put down the necessary roots to settle the west. It was the women who insisted, "I'm not corssing that God-forsaken desert again." They were now in the west, and that's where their homes were going to be.
Table of contents: title: Sacagawea; title: Molly Pitcher; title: Annie Rogers; title: Rachael [sic] Carson; title: Cathay Williams; title: Olga Schaaf Little; title: Stagecoach Mary Fields; title: Cynthia Ann Parker; title: Kitty Leroy; title: Laura Starcher; title: Poker Alice; title: Elizabeth Bradshaw; title: Helen Keller; title: Nancy Kelsey; title: The German Sisters; title: Abigail Scott Duniway; title: Mary Jane Colter; title: Luzena Stanley Wilson; title: Belle Starr; title: Annie Oakley; title: Susan Anderson; title: Sister Blandina Segale; title: Olive Mann Isbell; title: Donaldina Cameron; title: Dorothea Lange; title: Mary Ballou; title: Amelia Earhart; title: Clara Shortridge Foltz; title: Helen Hunt Jackson; title: [Index]; title: About the Author.