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Pioneer women : voices from the Kansas frontier by Joanna L. Stratton is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 hailed by Newsweek as "uncommonly interesting" and "a remarkable distillation of primary sources." Never before has there been such a detailed record of women'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 men—and at last that partnership has been recognized. "These voices are haunting" ( The New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before.

Who reads Pioneer women : voices from the Kansas frontier?

Author

Joanna L. Stratton

Publisher

New York : Simon and Schuster

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671226114

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Historical Fiction, Gender Studies

Rating

3.97 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14