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Women of the Pioneer Trail: Two Accounts of the American Westward Expansion During the 19th Century: By Ox team to California & Crossing the Plains in 1865
Women of the Pioneer Trail: Two Accounts of the American Westward Expansion During the 19th Century: By Ox team to California & Crossing the Plains in 1865
Lavinia Honeyman Porter & Sarah Raymond Herndon
Two epic accounts of the women of the way westward The first of these two first hand accounts by redoubtable pioneer women was written by Lavinia Honeyman Porter, a southern lady from a well to do ..
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Living With the Winnebagos: Experiences of Wisconsin During the Early 19th Century—Wau-Bun, The History of Fort Winnebago & The Winnebago War of 1827
Living With the Winnebagos: Experiences of Wisconsin During the Early 19th Century—Wau-Bun, The History of Fort Winnebago & The Winnebago War of 1827
Mrs. John H. Kinzie, Andrew Jackson Turner, Charles R. Tuttle
Accounts of the early days of Wisconsin by a notable pioneer woman The author of this book, Juliette McGill Kinzie, was married to Indian Agent John Kinzie, and journeyed with him to take up his ap..
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The Ranger & His Wife
The Ranger & His Wife
Dan W. Roberts Mrs. D. W. Roberts
Two Accounts of the Early Days of the Texas Rangers by a Married Couple—Rangers and Sovereignty by Dan W. Roberts & A Woman’s Reminiscences of Six Years in Camp with the Texas Rangers by Mrs. D. W. Roberts
Married life with the Texas Rangers on the old frontier Accounts of the lives of the Texas Rangers and of the early frontier days of the untamed American South-West are never less than fascinating...
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The Wyoming Ranch Letters
The Wyoming Ranch Letters
Elinore Pruitt Stewart
The Collected Correspondence of a Woman Settler on the American Frontier — Letters of a Woman Homesteader & Letters On an Elk Hunt
An authentic voice from the western frontier Elinore Pruitt Stewart is renowned for her books ‘Letters of a Woman Homesteader’ and its sequel ‘Letters on an Elk Hunt,’ both of which are included in..
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Sioux Massacre at Spirit Lake
Sioux Massacre at Spirit Lake
Thomas Teakle & R. A. Smith
Two Accounts of the Santee Sioux Attack on the Iowa Settlements in 1857—The Spirit Lake Massacre by Thomas Teakle & A History of Dickinson County, Iowa (Extract) by R. A. Smith
Scarlet Point’s raid in Iowa In March 1857, after a particularly severe winter, a band of fourteen starving, renegade Wahpekute Santee Sioux led by Scarlet Point (Inkpaduta) descended on the settle..
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The Captives of Abb’s Valley
The Captives of Abb’s Valley
James Moore
The Massacre & Captivity of Settlers in Virginia by Indians, 1786
A tragedy of Virginian colonial frontier In the summer of 1786 a large war party of Shawnee Indians entered Abb’s Valley, Virginia, and descended on the household of militia officer Captain John Mo..
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My Army Life and the Fort Phil. Kearney Massacre
My Army Life and the Fort Phil. Kearney Massacre
Frances C. Carrington
The Classic Account of an Infantry Lieutenant’s Wife on the Great Plains During the Indian Wars
A classic memoir of life on the western frontier The author of this well known and well regarded work begins her story of army life as a young officer’s wife on the western frontier with all the na..
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History of the Donner Party
History of the Donner Party
F. C. McGlashan
The Ordeal of the Wagon Train of Pioneers in the Sierra Nevada Winter of 1846-7
A tragic legend of the way West The story of the Donner Party is a tragic and infamous episode in the history of the 19th century pioneer migrations that crossed continental America. In May 1846 ei..
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History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner
History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner
Abbie Gardner-Sharp
The Raid of the Santee Sioux Against the Iowa Frontier Settlements, 1857
The last Indian raid in Iowa The winter of 1856-7 was a particularly severe one in Iowa, with prolonged heavy snowfall across the region. In March 1857 a chronic shortage of game and other food per..
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The Oatman Girls
The Oatman Girls
Royal B. Stratton
The Capture & Captivity of Two Young American Women in the 1850s by the Apache Indians
The incredible story of the girl with the face tattoo The story of the Oatman girls, Olive and Mary Ann, is one of the most famous accounts of the abduction of white women by indigenous Indians in ..
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Frances Slocum the Lost Sister of Wyoming
Frances Slocum the Lost Sister of Wyoming
John Franklin Meginness
The Story of a Quaker Girl's Abduction and Life Among the Miami Indians
Life among the Indians Young Frances Slocum was one of a family of peaceful Quakers from the Wyoming Valley, but latterly living in Lenape, Pennsylvania when, in 1778, aged just five years old, she..
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American Frontier Women
American Frontier Women
William W. Fowler
The Exploits of Dozens of Pioneer Women of the United States
The exceptional women who helped build a nation There can be little doubt in the minds of anyone who has an interest in the history of the pioneers of the emergent American nation of the huge, sign..
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Vanishing Arizona
Vanishing Arizona
Martha Summerhayes
A Young Wife of an Officer of the U.S. 8th Infantry in Apacheria During the 1870s
A lady, the desert, the army and the Apaches This is the account of the life of a young army wife who followed her husband—a second lieutenant of infantry—after the turbulent years of the American ..
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Plains Women
Plains Women
Lydia Spencer Lane & Lodisa Frizzell
Two Accounts of American Women on the Western Frontier

I Married a Soldier or Old Days in the Old Army
Across the Plains to California in 1852 Journal of Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell
The accounts of two women of the West in the 1850s The Great Plains evoke the very essence of the wild American frontier. In reality, beyond the ‘settled and civilised’ eastern seaboard lay a great..
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Captives!
Captives!
Cynthia Ann Parker and Others
The Narratives of Seven Women Taken Prisoner by the Plains Indians of the American West

Cynthia Ann Parker the Story of Her Capture
Mrs. J. E. De Camp Sweet’s Narrative of Her Captivity in the Sioux Outbreak of 1862
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Taken by the Indians of the West As the inexorable passage of pioneer immigrants pushed westward into the vastness of the American wilderness it was inevitable that the new settlers would collide w..
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