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(0)JoAnn Chartier
Author
Publisher
TWODOT
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From the earliest days of the western frontier, women heeded the call to go west along with their husbands, sweethearts, and parents. Many of these women were attached to the army camps and outposts that dotted the prairies. Some were active participants in the skirmishes and battles that took place in the western territories. Each of these women-wives, mothers, daughters, laundresses, soldiers, and shamans-risked their lives in unsettled lands, facing...
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the experiences of twelve women who helped to shape the western territories including Alamo survivor, Juana Navarro Alsbury, Cathy Williams who disguised herself as a man and served with the Thirty-eighth Infantry of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Cummings, New Mexico, and others.