In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company could be costly. Author Lael Morgan takes you into the heart of the gold rush demimonde,...
Women pioneers
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Author:Morgan, LaelSummary: -
Author:Illing, ThoraSummary:A biography of the extraordinary Nellie Cashman, a well-loved miner, entrepreneur and philanthropist who lived and worked in the roughest boomtowns of the West in the late-nineteenth century. At a time when well-bred women wore tight...
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Author:Caldwell, ClaireSummary:Poetry that explores what it means to be a woman—a settler woman—in the wilderness.
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Author:Monson, MarianneSummary:Tells the stories of women pioneers who endured unimaginable hardships to settle the West. All of them overcame obstacles, broke barriers, and changed the world--inspiring examples for the modern woman.
- Author:Glover, Douglas, Mathews, LawrenceSummary:
Winner, Governor General's Award for Fiction. Shortlisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize. A 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza — this is the heroine...
- Author:Neil, DanialSummary:
It is 1917, and a rather ruthless world of war and men. Women find themselves overwhelmed by the despotic nature of men. And in Edinburgh, it is no different. The war rages in Europe and the poverty at home fouls the cobbled streets....
- Author:Miller, SarahSummary:
In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in...
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Author:Grey, ZaneSummary:Filled with the life, color, and spirit of pioneer days, this is the story of the bravery and heroism of Betty, beautiful young sister of Colonel Isaac Zane.
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
Responsibilty for her father's Pennsylvania farm weighs heavily on Amethyst O'Shaunasy's shoulders. Since her overworked mother died, her father has done little but drink up the money Amethyst earns from selling eggs and cheese. When he...
- Author:Capps, BenjaminSummary:
When her parents are killed in a raid, 11-year-old Helen Morrison and her younger sister Katy are kidnapped by a band of Comanches. Given the name Tehanita, Helen vows to maintain her white identity and clings tightly to her only...
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Author:Kirkpatrick, JaneSummary:Emma Giesy is married and the mother of two. She's strong-willed and smart. Despite the odds, she and her husband branch off from a religious community of the 1850s to work and live independently in the remote coastal forest of the...
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Author:Fisher, KarenSummary:1847 Frontiersman James MacLaren loses his three children to sickness and his wife to another man. James joins a wagon train as a guide and has an affair with Lucy Mitchell that threatens to destroy her marriage. PEN/Faulkner Award....
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Author:Kirkpatrick, JaneSummary:So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal...
- Author:Streeter Aldrich, BessSummary:
Abbie Deal was born in Iowa during the 1800's. This novel tells how she moved to Nebraska as a bride and struggled with hardship and poverty to help her husband raise a family and provide for them.
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Author:Kirkpatrick, JaneSummary:In 1850s Missouri, the religious Bethel colony is resolved to remain pure in the midst of a tainted and sinful country. However, Emma Wagner, young and independent, is at odds with the community's submissive society. Learning to...
- Author:Bridge, Kathryn AnneSummary:
Four nineteenth century women, Florence Agassiz, Eleanor Fellows, Violet Sillitoe and Helen Kate Woods lived and traveled in British Columbia very much as a minority - white and female. Bridge looks at each of these pioneering women,...
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