Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies

Show Me Missouri Women, illustrated with over 100 photographs, features biographies of over 200 Missouri women, both living and deceased, who have made outstanding contributions to their professions, communities, state or nation. The book is divided into eleven chapters: pioneer women, women in the Civil War, women in the arts, educators, social reformers, women in politics, law, science, sports, civic leaders, volunteers, club women and women of various professions. Sponsored by the Missouri Division of the American Association of University Women, this comprehensive volume contains biographies of such famous Missouri women as Calamity Jane, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Bess Wallace Truman, and others.