Full name: Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier

Author: Joanna Stratton Year: 1981 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780671447489 0671447483

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 men--and at last that partnership has been recognized. Similar books: Who Cooked the Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts Far from Home by Lillian Schlissel Pioneer Women by Linda Peavy Born for Liberty by Sara M. Evans First Generations by Carol Berkin Call The Midwife by Jennifer Worth Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth Aprons and Silver Spoons by Mollie Moran Tsar by Peter Kurth The Mitfords by Charlotte Mosley We Two by Gillian Gill The Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivors by Jack Winocour The Churchills by Mary S. Lovell Martha Washington by Patricia Brady Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley Louisa May Alcott by Harriet Reisen Louisa by Louisa Thomas At Her Majesty's Request by Walter Dean Myers