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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149396503321

Autore

Monson Marianne <1975->

Titolo

Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women / / Marianne Monson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Shadow Mountain

ISBN

1-62973-468-3

Disciplina

920.72

Soggetti

Women pioneers - United States

Biographies.

United States History 1865-1921 Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Aunt Clara Brown : a woman in a thousand -- Charley Parkhurst : most celebrated stagecoach driver in the West -- Luzena Stanley Wilson : frontier entrepreneur -- María Amparo Ruiz de Burton : first Mexican-American female novelist -- Abigail Scott Duniway : Oregon Trail suffragette -- Mother Jones : she could not be silenced -- Nellie Cashman : gold rush "boomer" -- Mary Hallock Foote : mining town author and illustrator -- Martha Hughes Cannon : frontier doctor and first female state senator -- Zitkala-Sa : Dakota Sioux rights activist and writer -- Donaldina Cameron : the most loved and feared woman in Chinatown -- Makaopiopio : the spirit of Aloha.