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1) Women of the wild west: biographies from many cultures

Author

Pelz, Ruth

Pub. Date

c1995

Language

English

2) The legend of Calamity Jane

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

Description

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Follows the exploits of the legendary female western hero.

3) Women in the Old West

Author

Dumas, Marti

Series

A true book
Women's history in the U.S

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

Description

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"Introduces the reader to women in the old West"--

4) One more valley, one more hill: the story of Aunt Clara Brown

Author

Lowery, Linda

Series

Landmark books

Pub. Date

2002

Language

English

Description

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Chronicles the life of the woman called Aunt Clara Brown, who was born into slavery and became a pioneer and entrepreneur, earning money to bring other former slaves to a new start in Colorado.

5) Laura Ingalls Wilder

Author

Stone, Tanya Lee

Series

DK biography

Pub. Date

2009

Language

English

6) Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, stagecoach driver

Author

Charles, Tami

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

Description

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"The true story of Mary Fields, aka "Stagecoach Mary," a trailblazing African American woman who helped settle the American West."--Provided by the Publisher.

7) Laura Ingalls Wilder: young pioneer

Author

Gormley, Beatrice

Series

Childhood of famous Americans

Pub. Date

2001

Language

English

8) The Walnut Grove story of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Author

Anderson, William

Pub. Date

Language

English

9) Laura Ingalls Wilder: growing up in the little house

Author

Giff, Patricia Reilly

Series

Women of our time

Pub. Date

1987

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the author of the "Little House" books, including the years of her marriage to Almanzo Wilder.

10) Jane Wilkinson Long: Texas pioneer

Author

Petrick, Neila Skinner

Pub. Date

2004

Language

English

Description

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An introduction to the life of Jane Wilkinson Long, a Texas pioneer who experienced the early days of that state and who was the mother of the first Anglo baby born there.

11) Women of the West

Author

Kalman, Bobbie

Series

Life in the Old West

Pub. Date

c2000

Language

English

Description

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Describes the lives and experiences of women in the nineteenth-century American west, including immigrants, African Americans, and Native Americans.

12) Laura Ingalls Wilder

Author

Wallner, Alexandra

Pub. Date

c1997

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the well-known author of "The Little House on the Prairie," describing the pioneer experiences that provided the basis for much of her writing.

13) The tragic tale of Narcissa Whitman and a faithful history of the Oregon Trail

Author

Harness, Cheryl

Pub. Date

c2006

Language

English

Description

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Reveals what really happened when Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, embarked on a perilous quest through the untamed Oregon Trail to spread the word of the Bible to the Indians.

14) The story of Stagecoach Mary Fields

Author

Miller, Robert H

Series

Stories from the forgotten West

Pub. Date

Language

English

Description

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At the age of sixty, Mary Fields got the job of delivering mail via stagecoach from Cascade, Montana, to St. Peter's Mission, as the first African American woman ever to carry the United States mail.

15) Dakota dreams: Fanny Sabra Howe's own story, 1881-1884

Author

Townsley, Janet

Pub. Date

c2003

Language

English

Description

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Excerpts from a diary, with background information, tell a story of a young woman witness to her family's courageous homestead move from Wisconsin to the Dakota Territory.

16) Aunt Clara Brown: official pioneer

Author

Lowery, Linda

Series

On my own biography

Pub. Date

c1999

Language

English

Description

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A biography of the freed slave who made her fortune in Colorado and used her money to bring other former slaves there to begin new lives.

17) Women of the wild West

Author

Krohn, Katherine E

Series

Biography

Pub. Date

c2000

Language

English

Description

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Presents an account of frontier life for women in the American West through brief biographies of six famous individuals, including Calamity Jane, Molly Brown, Belle Starr, Pearl Hart, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Annie Oakley.