Author: Martha Gay Masterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Pioneers -- Northwest, women pioneers.

Author: Christiane Bird
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671027565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Combining reminiscence, travelogue, history, and interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, a journey through modern-day Iran reveals a nation shrouded by misunderstanding, cultural stereotypes, and hostility.

Author: Susan Armitage
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806120676
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Uses selections from diaries, public records, letters, interviews, and fiction to describe the experiences of women in the West, including Indians, servants, waitresses, prostitutes, and farmers

Author: Cathy Luchetti
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393321555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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More than 140 period photographs and excerpts from letters, diaries, books, and journals provide insight into daily life in the American West for women in the nineteenth century. Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. Reprint.

Author: Mary Barmeyer O'Brien
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762751894
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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Mary Rockwood Powers reluctantly left her comfortable life as a doctor's wife in Wisconsin in 1856, one of the many women whose destiny as a settler of the West was determined by her husband's wishes. Trading in her home for canvas roof and wheels, Mary, her husband, and their three children set out on the arduous trek westward to California. Shortly into their travels west, it became painfully obvious that Doctor Powers was simply not up to the task of making sure his family "outlasted the trail." Mary had to step in and become the head of the household with its canvas roof and wheels--leaving behind her ideals of femininity along with her beloved possessions. In Outlasting the Trail author Mary Barymeyer O'Brien uses the letters Mary Rockwood Powers wrote to her mother and sister back home as a stepping off point to further illuminate this remarkable woman's story. Based on the dramatic struggle a real family, this novel brings to life a fascinating slice of American history.

Author: Gail O'Sullivan Dwyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781555716639
Category : Women military cadets
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Gail O'Sullivan Dwyer graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1981-- only the second Academy class to have women among its members.

Author: Jonah Winter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823416011
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From Annie Oakley to Polly Pry, biographical sketches, color portraits, and sepia line drawings reveal the accomplishments of 15 amazing women whose adventurous spirit helped build our nation. Illustrations.

Author: Sherrie McLeRoy
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 9781556225017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book tells the stories of eight of those definat women, who endured the thrived because they had strength, the intelligence, and the guts to make their mark in a society ruled by and for men.

Author: Anne Seagraves
Publisher: Treasure Chest Books
ISBN: 9780961908836
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Contains biographies of the following Western women: Jessie Benton Fremont--Abigail Scott Duniway--Sarah Winnemucca--Fanny Stenhouse--Ann Eliza Young--Belle Starr--Nellie Cashmen--Jeanne Elizabeth Wier--Helen Jane Wiser Stewart and Grace Carpenter Hudson.

Author: Elmore Leonard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780385323864
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From a forbidden glance on a Miami night to a killer's slow burn on a Detroit street, no one mixes passion, scheming, and violence better than Elmore Leonard. But before he did it in Miami Beach or Motor City, Elmore Leonard did it on the American frontier. "The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories is a raw, hard-bitten collection that gathers together the best of Leonard's Western fiction. In stories that burn with passion, treachery, and heroism, the American frontier comes vividly, magnificently to life. In "The Tonto Woman," a young wife, her face tattooed by Indian kidnappers, becomes society's outcast--until an outlaw vows to set her free. . . . In "Only Good Ones," we meet a fine man turned killer in one impossible moment. . . ."Saint with a Six-Gun" pits a doomed prisoner against his young guard--in a drama of deception and compassion that leads to a shocking act of courage. . . . In "The Colonel's Lady," a brutal ambush puts a woman into the hands of a vicious renegade--while a tracker attempts a rescue that cannot come in time . . . and in "Blood Money," five bank robbers are being picked off one by one, but one man believes he can make it out alive. The wild and glorious spirit of the West comes alive in the hands of America's greatest storyteller. Etching a harsh, haunting landscape with razor-sharp prose, Elmore Leonard shows in nineteen brilliant stories why he has become the American poet laureate of the desperate and the bold.