Women of the West

  • A Long and Wearisome Journey: The Eakin Family Diaries 1866. Edited by Shirley Ewart and Jane and John Anderson. Pika Press, Enterprise, OR, 1993. ISBN 0-918957-10-9.
  • A Trip Across the Plains, 1866.  Sarah A Wisner.  Newberry Library on Microfilm.
  • Annie Oakley by John Hamilton. -- Edina, MN : ABDO & Daughters, 1995.
  • Ballad of Lucy Whipple. Cushman, Karen
  • Black Pioneers of the Northwest 18000-1918.  Martha A Anderson.  Martha Anderson, Portland, 1980.
  • Black women of the Old West / William Loren Katz. -- 1st ed. -- New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1995. Traces the history of African American women on the western frontier in their roles as abolitionists, educators, pioneers, and mail-order brides.
  • Covered Wagon Women : Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
  • Covered Wagon Women : Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1879 -1903
  • Covered Wagon Women : Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852 :The Oregon Trail
  • Covered Wagon Women : Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1875-1883
  • Holmes, Kenneth L., ed.
  • Heroines of the Early West by Nancy Wilson Ross [Random House, 1944,1960).
  • ISBN 0-300-02605-6.
  • Let Them Speak for Themselves: Women in the American West, 1849-1900. Christiane Fischer. Shoe StringPress, 1977.
  • Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart.
  • My heroes, my people : African Americans and Native Americans in the West / portraits by Morgan Monceaux ; text by Morgan Monceaux and Ruth Katcher. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Frances Foster Books, 1999.   Presents brief portraits of an assortment of African Americans, Native peoples, and men and women of mixed heritage who played roles in the history of the American West.
  • ON THE WAY HOME Laura Ingalls Wilder. Chronicles in diary format a trip that Laura and Almonzo took in covered wagon from South Dakota to Missouri in 1894.  This was early in their marriage after experiencing many crop failures up north. This book contains a very interesting story about their $100.00 bill which disappears and reappears along the trip.
  • Pioneer Children on the Journey West.  Emmy E. Werner. Westview Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8133-2027-5.
  • Pioneer women: the lives of women on the frontier Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998
  • Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier. Stratton, Joanna.
  • Riding Freedom Ryan, Pam Munoz
  • The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains.  Glenda Riley. University Press of Kansas, 1988.  ISBN 0-7006-0424-3.
  • The Gentle Tamers:  Women of the Old Wild West. Brown, Dee.-- New York : Bantam Books, 1958.
  • The gold rush / by Bobbie Kalman. -- New York : Crabtree, 1999. This book describes the lure of gold that drew both men and women west and discusses how they lived, the difficulties they faced, and more.
  • The Old West : The Women  / Time Life Books
  • The women who made the West
  • These is my words : the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 / Nancy E. Turner.
  • WEST FROM HOME Laura Ingalls Wilder. Contains letters Laura wrote to Almonzo when she traveled west to San Fransisco in 1915.
  • Westering Women adn the Frontier Experience 1800-1915. Sandra L Myres.  University of NM Press, 1982.
  • Women and Men on the Overland Trail.  John Mack Faragher.  Yale Univ Press,
  • Women of the West / by Bobbie Kalman & Jane Lewis. -- New York : Crabtree Pub. Co, 1999.  This book describes the lives and experiences of women in the nineteenth-century American west, including immigrants, African Americans, and Native Americans.
  • Women of the West. -- Niles, IL : United Learning, 1994.
  • Women of the West. Luchetti, Cathy.
  • Women of the Wild West. Krohn, Katherine E.
  • Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey (Studies in the Life of Women)
  • Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey. Lillian Schlissell. Schoken Books, 1982.
  • Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey. Schlissel, Lillian, ed.
  • Women's diaries of the westward journey/ Schlissel, Lillian. preface by Carl Degler. -- NY  Schocken Books, 1982, 1992.
  • Women's voices from the Oregon Trail : the times that tried women's souls ; and, A guide to women's history along the Oregon Trail / by Susan G. Butruille ; artwork by Kathleen Petersen ; photographs by author unless otherwise noted. -- 2nd ed. -- Boise, ID : Tamarack Books, 1994.   The story of the women who traveled to Oregon 150 years ago.  Includes a guide to historical sites along the Oregon Trail that recognize women's history
  • Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail : The Times That Tried Women's Souls and a Guide to Women's History Along the Oregon Trail


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