Frontier Teachers Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West

Name: Frontier Teachers Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West
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ISBN: 9780762748198

ISBN-10: 0762748192

ISBN-13: 9780762748198

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Authors: Chris Enss

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If countless books and movies are to be believed, America7;s Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men-a man7;s world. Here, Chris Enss, in the latest of her popular books to take on this stereotype, tells the stories of twelve courageous women who faced down schoolrooms full of children on the open prairies and in the mining towns of the Old West. Between 1847 and 1858, more than 600 women teachers traveled across the untamed frontier to provide youngsters with an education, and the numbers grew rapidly in the decades to come, as women took advantage of one of the few career opportunities for respectable work for…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 10/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.044



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Sister Blandina Segale: The Outlaw's Teacher


Mary Graves Clarke: The Sorrowful Teacher


Eliza Mott: The Carson Valley Teacher


Anna Webber: The Prairie Teacher


Tabitha Brown: The Grandmother Teacher


Olive Mann Isbell: The Mission Teacher


Lucia Darling: The Montana Teacher


Sarah Royce: The Philosopher's Teacher


Mary Gray McLench: The Oregon Teacher


Sister Mary Russell and the Sisters of Mercy: The Orphans' Teacher


Hannah Clapp: The University Teacher


Bethenia Owens-Adair: The Student Teacher


Appendix


Bibliography


Index


About the Author