Frontier Women: An Authentic History of the Courage and Trials of the Pioneer Heroines of Our American Frontier (Woman on the American Frontier)

From dust jacket flap: Thus begins author William W. Fowler as he embarks on a journey of feminine heroism, courage, and endurance. Through these accounts we uncover a flat contradiction of the historical perspective of women as the delicate 'fair and gentle sex.' The true influence that women had on the colonization and expansion of America has been previously revealed only in short passages, when it could, and ought to fill volumes.