Frontier teachers : stories of heroic women of the old west

Enss, Chris, 1961- author.

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"If countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men-a man's world. Here, Chris Enss, in the latest of her popular books to take on this stereotype, tells the stories of seventeen courageous women who faced down schoolrooms full of children on the open prairies and in the mining towns of the Old West. Now with five new teac...

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Education West (U.S.) History 19th century

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West (U.S.) History 1848-1860

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Women teachers West (U.S.) History 19th century

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ISBN:

9781493064779

Edition:

Second edition

Description:

xvi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Bethenia Owens-Adair : The student teacher
Tabitha Brown : The grandmother teacher
Eliza Stewart Boyd : The history making teacher
Hannah Clapp : The university teacher
Mary Graves Clark : The sorrowful teacher
Lucia Darling : The Montana teacher
Sarah Herring Sorin : The attorney teacher
Olive Mann Isbell : The mission teacher
Mary Gray McLench : The Oregon teacher
Catherine Beecher : educational pioneer
Eliza Mott : The Carson Valley teacher
Sarah Royce : The philosopher's teacher
Sister Mary Russell and the Sisters of Mercy : The orphan's teacher
Sister Blandina Segale : The outlaw's teacher
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin : The Yankton Sioux teacher
Anna Webber : The prairie teacher
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins : The Paiute princess teacher

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3265615

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