Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier

Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier

From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as â€œuncommonly interestingâ€ and â€œa remarkable distillation of primary sources.â€

Never before has there been such a detailed record of womenâ€™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 menâ€”and at last that partnership has been recognized. â€œThese voices are hauntingâ€ (The New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before.
Country USA
Manufacturer Touchstone
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2024-02-13
Format Kindle eBook

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