- 224 pages
- English
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Pioneer Women
About This Book
From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as "uncommonly interesting" and "a remarkable distillation of primary sources." Never before has there been such a detailed record of women's courage, such a living portrait of the women who civilized the American frontier. Here are their stories: wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders, and circuit riders. Their personal recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, cowboy shootouts, Indian raids, and blizzards on the plains vividly reveal the drama, danger and excitement of the pioneer experience. These were women of relentless determination, whose tenacity helped them to conquer loneliness and privation. Their work was the work of survival, it demanded as much from them as from their menâand at last that partnership has been recognized. "These voices are haunting" ( The New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Foreword
- Epigraph
- Part One
- Part Two
- Part Three
- Part Four
- Part Five
- Photographs
- About the Author
- Appendix: Guide to the Lilla Day Monroe Collection of Pioneer Stories
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright