More than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women write by Gayle Shirley. This book was released on 2010-10-19. More than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Treasure State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Colorado Women
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Colorado Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Colorado Women write by Gayle Shirley. This book was released on 2012-01-24. More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Colorado Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moving portraits of eighteen independent women who helped make Colorado what it is today Remarkable Colorado Women profiles the lives of eighteen of the state’s most important historical figures—women from across Colorado, from many different backgrounds and from various walks of life. Read about Julia Archibald Holmes who became the first white woman to ascend to the summit of Pike’s Peak in 1858; Frances Wisebart Jacobs, the compassionate housewife who devoted her life to supporting Colorado charities in the late nineteenth century; and Mary Elitch Long, founder of the famed pleasure grounds known as Elitch Gardens. The third edition features new biographies of frontier teacher Mabel Barbee Lee, who left a lasting impact on the students of Cripple Creek; Mo-Chi, the first female warrior of the Cheyenne; and Mildred Montague Genevieve "Tweet" Kimball who became the Cattle Queen of Colorado's Front Range in the twentieth century. With enduring strength and compassion, these remarkable women broke through social, cultural, or political barriers to make contributions to society that still have an impact today.
More Than Petticoats
More Than Petticoats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More Than Petticoats write by Gayle Corbett Shirley. This book was released on 1995. More Than Petticoats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gayle C. Shirley has gathered the stories of fourteen remarkable women from Montana's past. While readers may be familiar with the lives of some of these women, such as peace activist Jeannette Rankin, many of these women are little known. Now, for the first time, their lasting contributions are chronicled as a part of Montana's history.
Wild West Women
Wild West Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wild West Women write by Erin H. Turner. This book was released on 2016-06-01. Wild West Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wild West Women features the true stories of the pioneering wives, mothers, daughters, teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists who shaped the frontier and helped change the face of American history. These fifty stories cover the Western experience from Kansas City to Sacramento and the Yukon to the Texas Gulf.
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women write by Lyndee Henderson. This book was released on 2006-11-01. More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women chronicles the stories of twelve Illinois women who lived in the era of True Womanhood and dedicated themselves to charity toward family and strangers. Unwittingly, these women forged a legacy that expanded well beyond Illinois' borders. From First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln's devotion to country to ballroom dancer Irene Castle's fight for animal rights, the women of Illinois acted with progressive vision. Meet the wife of the Mormon Prophet, Emma Hale Smith, who challenged ideology; Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, the model of usefulness;Myra Bradwell, considered America's first woman lawyer; and African American entrepreneur Annie Minerva Malone, who built a beauty empire. Born before the dawn of the twentieth century, the women herein paved the way for future generations. Author Lyndee Jobe Henderson presents absorbing biographies filled with rarely published details.
