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Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier

Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier Paperback - 1982

by Stratton, Joanna

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Never before has there been such a detailed portrait of women's courage. Here are the stories of wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders and circuit riders. And their recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, Indian raids, cowboy shootouts, blizzards and more. Photos.

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  • Title Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
  • Author Stratton, Joanna
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Touchstone
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone Books, New York
  • Date 1982-09-17
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR003513668
  • ISBN 9780671447489 / 0671447483
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.14 x 6.08 x 0.86 in (23.22 x 15.44 x 2.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Cultural Region: Plains
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Kansas
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Frontier and pioneer life - Kansas, Women pioneers - Kansas - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 80015960
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.420

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THEY CALLED IT "the Great American Desert."

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About the author

Joanna L. Stratton was born and raised in Washington, D.C., but considers Kansas and her family there as her second home. She began her work on "Pioneer Women" while attending Harvard College, from which she graduated with honors in 1976. She is currently pursuing graduate studies at Stanford University.