Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier (Oklahoma Paperbacks Edition)

Pioneer Women provides a rare look at frontier life through the eyes of the pioneer women who settled the American West. Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith vividly describe the hardships such women endured journeying west and making homes and communities on the frontier. Their hopes and fears and, most of all, their courage in the face of adversity are revealed in excerpts from journals, letters, and oral histories. Illustrated with a fascinating collection of seldom-seen photographs, Pioneer Women reveals the faces as well as the voices of women who lived on the frontier.

The authors portray a wide variety of women, from those who found liberty and confidence in undertaking "men’s work" to those who felt burdened by the wind, the weather, and the struggle of frontier life.

• Women of the West
• Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
• Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Dover Books on Americana)
• Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
• Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
• Hearts West: True Stories Of Mail-Order Brides On The Frontier
• Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
• Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
• Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865
• Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier