Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier

Name: Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
Author: Joanna Stratton
ISBN: 9781476753591

Joanna Stratton

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Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier

Joanna Stratton

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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 of 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.

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