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Name: Westward the women
Author: Nancy Wilson Ross

📘 Westward the women by Nancy Wilson Ross

Westward the Women traces the stories of a wide array of women who traveled and settled across the American continent. Using artifacts from attics, libraries, state historical museums, and the reminiscences of western old-timers, the book offers a largely forgotten perspective on the pioneer era. The work highlights notable figures such as a Maine botanical scholar who studied in frontier solitude, Belgian nuns teaching needlework and prayer in forest communities, a former milliner who performed the first female autopsy, and a suffragette who founded a Western women’s newspaper and promoted equal rights. Through these intimate portraits, the text illuminates how women were integral to the settlement and cultural life of the West.

First publish date: 1944

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography

Authors: Nancy Wilson Ross

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