Books like Frontier woman by Walker Demarquis Wyman

Set in 1840s Texas, Frontier Woman follows Texas Ranger Jarette Creed and the free‑spirited Cricket Stewart as they navigate conflict with Comanches and Mexican forces while discovering unlikely love and loyalty amid frontier danger.

Gabrielle Burton retraces Tamsen Donner’s life and the ill-fated Oregon Trail, combining biography, family memoir and travel writing into a modern quest that reconnects her with the pioneer’s legacy.

This information-laden book,written for the general public interested in the pioneer life in Iowa and the average woman on the American frontier, focuses on the reality of frontierswomen's daily lives. The women themselves reveal what they were doing and thinking doing this period through their letters, diaries, journals, and other writing. Particular attention is paid to the women who came to Iowa in the second half of the nineteenth century. Glenda Riley emphasizes and brings to life women's true contribution to the frontier. She stresses the economic contribution of women to western settlement and development and destroys the many myths and stereotypes regarding frontier women. Diaries and letters are blended with more formal data such as contemporary newspapers, census reports, and the secondary accounts. "The goal is to portray the lives of real frontierswomen and challenge the legitimacy of the colorful but inauthentic typologies of them."

Until the mid 1970s, frontierswomen appeared in histories of the American West only as one-dimensional stereotypes or not at all. The intention of this study is to demonstrate not only that women did play highly significant and multifaceted roles in the development of the American West but also that their lives as settlers displayed fairly consistent patterns which transcended geographic sections of the frontier. Further, the author maintains that these shared experiences and responses of frontierswomen constituted a "female frontier." In other words, frontierswomen's responsibilities, life styles, and sensibilities were shaped more by gender considerations than by region.

A compelling biography of Clara Brown, a freed slave who built wealth in Colorado and helped other former slaves start new lives there.

Monson shares the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched helpless as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter six decades later. Charlotte hid her gender to escape a life of poverty and became the greatest stagecoach driver that ever lived. A Native American, Gertrude fought to give her people a voice and to educate leaders about the ways and importance of America's native people. All endured hardships, overcame obstacles, and changed the world.