A biography of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder, covering her upbringing in a pioneer family, early life and marriage, and work as a teacher and writer.
Alexandra, the daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, becomes a wealthy land owner after she inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
how two teams and one scrappy player put women's hoops on the map
Macy, Sue
Agnes Morley describes growing up on her family's ranch in New Mexico, attending school at Stanford University, and participating in the first basketball game played between two women's college teams on April 4, 1896.
A narrative portrait of the author of the Little House series details her real life as a young pioneer traveling west with her family and homesteading on new territories, revealing how her actual life differed from the adventures in her books.
In the late nineteenth century, a fourteen-year-old immigrant girl from Bohemia and a ten-year-old orphan boy arrive in Black Hawk, Nebraska, and in teaching each other form a friendship that will last a lifetime.
"The true story of Mary Fields, aka 'Stagecoach Mary,' a trailblazing African American woman who helped settle the American West"--Provided by the Publisher.
An historical biography of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, using unpublished manuscripts, letter, diaries, and land and financial records to fill in the gaps not covered in her "Prairie" books.
"Explores women pioneers, including the first women in the West, the difficult life on the frontier, working different jobs usually reserved for men, female outlaws, and how women in the Wild West brought about reform"--Provided by publisher.
