| Contents |
Introduction / Paula Mitchell Marks -- Sacajawea: the shadows of history -- Narcissa Whitman: overland to the Oregon Territory -- Juliet Brier: across the desert in '49 -- Dame Shirley: chronicler of the mines -- Minority women in the West: Juanita, Biddy Mason, Donaldina Cameron -- Winning the vote in the West: Esther [ Hobart ] Morris and Carrie Chapman Catt -- Ann Eliza Young: "Wife No. 19" -- Bright Eyes [ Susette ] La Flesche: an Indian woman fights for justice -- Women on the cattle frontier: Agnes Morley Cleveland, Pamela Mann, Ella "Cattle Kate" Watson, Elizabeth Taylor -- Professional women in the West: Anna Howard Shaw and Bethenia Owens-Adair -- Women of the farm frontier: Miriam Davis Colt and Mary Elizabeth Lease -- Willa Cather: pioneer of western literature -- Notes. |
| General note | Originally published: Millbrae, Calif. : Les Femmes, c1976. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-170) and index. |
| LCCN | 98022580 |
| ISBN | 0803270739 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780803270732 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Other class# |
U5001 T723 -1998 |
