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What are the true hidden stories behind the mythical and most notorious women of the Wild West days, including Calamity Jane, Cattle Kate, Belle Starr, Lola Montez, Pearl Hart, Madame Moustache, Carrie Nation, and Bridget Grant?
In his 1927 book, "Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats," journalist Duncan Aikman (1889-1955) through meticulous research has uncovered the often-amazing hidden stories behind the glamorous myths of these matrons of the Old...
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If countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men-a man's world. Here, Chris Enss, in the latest of her popular books to take on this stereotype, tells the stories of twelve courageous women who faced down schoolrooms full of children on the open prairies and in the mining towns of the Old West. Between 1847 and 1858, more...
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Serious and dependable, Berta is very different from her pretty, outgoing sister, Glenna. This makes Berta sad and envious until she learns to accept and cherish her own uniqueness.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Held hostage in a camp of bandits, Ariana's emotions swing between terror and boredom as days stretch into weeks. Will she ever see her mother and father again, the two who had so lovingly adopted her as an infant and raised her as their own? Will she ever wear the wedding dress so carefully saved for her, her one link with her birth parents, now long dead?
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From the earliest days of the western frontier, women heeded the call to go west along with their husbands, sweethearts, and parents. Many of these women were attached to the army camps and outposts that dotted the prairies. Some were active participants in the skirmishes and battles that took place in the western territories. Each of these women-wives, mothers, daughters, laundresses, soldiers, and shamans-risked their lives in unsettled lands, facing...
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This book beautifully captures the triumphs and tribulations of ten women who crossed the American frontier by wagon. While their stories are widely different, each of these remarkable women was inspiring, courageous, and resourceful. The legacy of their letters and diaries, most written on the trail, is a fascinating addition to the understanding of the history of the West.
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During the gold rush, women worked alongside men panning and digging for gold and silver in the mountains of Colorado, California, and all the way up to Alaska. While many books have been written about the frontier women who ran brothels and boarding houses in mining towns, none have told the true stories of ladies who labored as hard as men out in the mines. A wonderful collection of true Americana, this book includes archival photographs of lady...
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"In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years. Certain that...