Publication: Pioneer Women: Voices Form The Kansas Frontier

• Stratton, Joanna

LCCN: 80-15960

From a rediscovered collection of priceless
autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of pioneer
women, Joanna Stratton has made a remarkable and widely
celebrated book. 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. Includes index.  Bibliography: p.
305-307.