Rugged Ladies
Pioneering Women of the Frontier

Fiction:

The Outlander
Gil Adamson

Into the Prairie: The Pioneers
Rosanne Bittner

An Uncommon Enemy
Michelle Black

Midwife of the Blue Ridge
Christine Blevins

Wind Dancer
Jamie Carie

My Ántonia
Willa Cather

The Night Journal
Elizabeth Crook

The Diary of Mattie Spenser
Sandra Dallas

Queen of Swords
Sara Donati

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
Jim Fergus

A Sudden Country
Karen Fisher

Woman of the Frontier
Zane Grey

A Vote of Confidence
Robin Lee Hatcher

Augusta Locke
William Haywood Henderson

A Mending at the Edge
Jane Kirkpatrick

Etta
Gerald Kolpan

Summer Moon
Jill Marie Landis

The White
Deborah Larsen

The Overland Trail
W.W. Lee

A Man to Call My Own
Johanna Lindsey

Only Mine
Elizabeth Lowell

Joelle’s Secret
Gilbert Morris

When Hope Springs New
Janette Oke

A Promise for Tomorrow
Judith Pella

A Love To Last Forever
Tracie Peterson

Redeeming Love
Francine Rivers

Sophie’s Dilemma
Lauraine Snelling

The Sergeant’s Lady
Miles Hood Swarthout

Lakota Flower
Janelle Taylor

The Star Garden: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine
Nancy E. Turner

Crown of Dust
Mary Volmer

Sixteen Brides
Stephanie Grace Whitson

True Women
Janice Woods Windle

Nonfiction:

Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
Joanna L. Stratton  305.42 STR

The Quilt That Walked to Golden
Sandra Dallas  746.46 DAL

Cathy Williams: From Slave to Buffalo Soldier
Phillip Thomas Tucker  973.81092 TUC

Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats
Duncan Aikman  978.02 AIK

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Daniel Brown  978.02 BRO

Best of Covered Wagon Women
Kenneth L. Holmes, editor  978.02092 BES

Searching for Tamsen Donner
Gabrielle Burton  978.02092 BUR

Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Elinore Pruitt Stewart  978.703 STE

Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend
James D. McLaird  B CALAMITY JANE

Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Donald Zochert  B WILDER

Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier: A Sourcebook for Canada and the United States
Carol Fairbanks  GEN REF 305.40971 FAI

eBooks:

Looking for Country: A Norwegian Immigrant’s Alberta Memoir
Ellenor Ranghild Merriken  online [electronic resource: (eBook)]

Pacific Northwest Women, 1815-1925: Lives, Memories, and Writings
Jean M. Ward, editor  online [electronic resource: (eBook)]

Homesteading on the Plains: Daily Life in the Land of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mary Dodson Wade  online [electronic resource: (eBook)]

Army Wives on the American Frontier: Living by the Bugles
Anne Bruner Eales  online [electronic resource: (eBook)]

Letters by Lamplight: A Woman’s View of Everyday Life in South Texas, 1873-1883
Lois E. Myers  online [electronic resource: (eBook)]

Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919
Philip L. Gerber, editor  online [electronic resource: (eBook)]

The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinor Pruitt Stewart,  Susanne K. George, editor  online [electronic resource: (eBook)]

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