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, significant and vital role played by its redoubtable women. Whilst it might be appropriate to claim that beside every good man there stands a good woman, in the case of the women of the American frontier from its earliest days among the eastern forests of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the trackless prairies and deserts of the westward tread of 'manifest destiny, ' the women of the new...
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 pioneer...
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, significant and vital role played by its redoubtable women. Whilst it might be appropriate to claim that beside every good man there stands a good woman, in the case of the women of the American frontier from its earliest days among the eastern forests of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the trackless prairies and deserts of the westward tread of 'manifest destiny, ' the women of the new...
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 pioneer...
Told in the flowery language of the late nineteenth century, these true accounts read like fiction adventure tales. But these women were very real indeed, from the Mayflower mothers to the missionaries. To describe their lives as "hair-raising" and "thrilling" is no exaggeration. Hundreds of brief biographies are chronicled.
Told in the flowery language of the late nineteenth century, these true accounts read like fiction adventure tales. But these women were very real ind...
