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The Resource Women of the frontier : 16 tales of trailblazing homesteaders, entrepreneurs, and rabble-rousers, Brandon Marie Miller

Women of the frontier : 16 tales of trailblazing homesteaders, entrepreneurs, and rabble-rousers, Brandon Marie Miller

Label
Women of the frontier : 16 tales of trailblazing homesteaders, entrepreneurs, and rabble-rousers
Title
Women of the frontier
Title remainder
16 tales of trailblazing homesteaders, entrepreneurs, and rabble-rousers
Statement of responsibility
Brandon Marie Miller
Title variation
Women of the frontier
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Drawing on journal entries, letters, and song lyrics to evoke the courage and spirit of female pioneers, a collection of portraits traces the lives of such individuals as Amelia Stewart Knight, Miriam Colt, and Clara Brown
Member of
Biography type
collective biography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Miller, Brandon Marie
Dewey number
978/.033082
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • portraits
  • photographs
Index
index present
LC call number
CT3262.W37
LC item number
M55 2013
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Women of action
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Women pioneers.
  • West (U.S.)
  • Women
Target audience
juvenile
Label
Women of the frontier : 16 tales of trailblazing homesteaders, entrepreneurs, and rabble-rousers, Brandon Marie Miller
Instantiates
Publication
Note
"Interior design: Sarah Olson ; Map design: Chris Erichsen"--Title page verso
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references, pages 225-238, and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Luzena Stanley Wilson: California gold fever
  • Clara Brown: African American pioneer
  • Bethenia Owens-Adair: female physician
  • And now the fun begins.
  • Martha Dartt Maxwell: Colorado naturalist
  • Charlotte "Lotta" Crabtree: "Golden wonder" of the stage
  • Great expectations for the future.
  • Mary Elizabeth Lease: political firebrand
  • Carry Nation: "Hachetation" against the devil's brew
  • Clash of cultures.
  • Many a weary mile.
  • Rachel Parker Plummer and Cynthia Ann Parker: the captive and the "white squaw"
  • Sarah Winnemucca: Life among the Paiutes
  • Susette La Flesche: "an Indian is a person"
  • Love song to the West
  • Margret Reed: surviving starvation in the Sierra Nevada
  • Amelia Stewart Knight: on the Oregon trail
  • Oh, give me a home.
  • Narcissa Whitman: alone, in the thick darkness of heathendom
  • Miriam Davis Colt: an experiment in Kansas
  • Frances Grummond: Army wife in Wyoming
  • A woman that can work.
Control code
ocn793575955
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
ix, 246 pages
Isbn
9781883052973
Isbn Type
(hardcover)
Lccn
2012035756
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Other physical details
illustrations, map, portraits, photographs
Stock number
1350759
System control number
(OCoLC)793575955
Label
Women of the frontier : 16 tales of trailblazing homesteaders, entrepreneurs, and rabble-rousers, Brandon Marie Miller
Publication
Note
"Interior design: Sarah Olson ; Map design: Chris Erichsen"--Title page verso
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references, pages 225-238, and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Luzena Stanley Wilson: California gold fever
  • Clara Brown: African American pioneer
  • Bethenia Owens-Adair: female physician
  • And now the fun begins.
  • Martha Dartt Maxwell: Colorado naturalist
  • Charlotte "Lotta" Crabtree: "Golden wonder" of the stage
  • Great expectations for the future.
  • Mary Elizabeth Lease: political firebrand
  • Carry Nation: "Hachetation" against the devil's brew
  • Clash of cultures.
  • Many a weary mile.
  • Rachel Parker Plummer and Cynthia Ann Parker: the captive and the "white squaw"
  • Sarah Winnemucca: Life among the Paiutes
  • Susette La Flesche: "an Indian is a person"
  • Love song to the West
  • Margret Reed: surviving starvation in the Sierra Nevada
  • Amelia Stewart Knight: on the Oregon trail
  • Oh, give me a home.
  • Narcissa Whitman: alone, in the thick darkness of heathendom
  • Miriam Davis Colt: an experiment in Kansas
  • Frances Grummond: Army wife in Wyoming
  • A woman that can work.
Control code
ocn793575955
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
ix, 246 pages
Isbn
9781883052973
Isbn Type
(hardcover)
Lccn
2012035756
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Other physical details
illustrations, map, portraits, photographs
Stock number
1350759
System control number
(OCoLC)793575955

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