Central Kansas Library System

"Women played an essential role in the development of the West. Women of the American West takes a look at the daring, inventive, and determined women that helped shape the nation."--Publisher's website.

Text and photographs tell the story of pioneer women: schoolmarms, ranchers, shopkeepers, doctors, mail-order brides, as well as, Native American women.

Presents examples of women who helped to shape the Western frontier in such diverse roles as schoolteacher, missionary, justice of the peace, and homesteader.

Presents an account of frontier life for women in the American West through brief biographies of fifteen famous individuals, including Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, Nellie Cashman, Mary Fields, and Annie Oakley.

Using fictional first- and third-person narrative, profiles five women, Clara Brown, Sara Winnemucca, Nellie Cashman, Isabella Bird, and Margaret "Molly" Brown, who braved the western frontier. Sidebars link the narrative to documented historical events.

"Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods" in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. It wasn't until after she was sixty that Laura Ingalls Wilder started chronicling those times, which resulted in nine Little House books, a hit TV series that ran for eight years, and her own permanent place as a heroine of the American West"--

A journal account of a wealthy, educated pioneer woman who, with her husband, joined the goldrush to California and raised a family in the American West.