1026 records matched your query
02938aam a2200421 i 4500 001 4CDD79CCAAD111EE853AF3262BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240104011316 008 230408s2023 ctua b 001 0ceng 010 $a 2023015906 020 $a 1493064770 020 $a 9781493064779 035 $a (OCoLC)1376194840 040 $a LBSOR $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usp-- 050 00 $a LA2315 W38 E57 2023 100 1 $a Enss, Chris, $d 1961- $e author. 245 10 $a Frontier teachers : $b stories of heroic women of the Old West / $c Chris Enss. 250 $a Second edition. 264 1 $a Guilford, Connecticut ; $b Twodot, $c [2023] 300 $a xvi, 202 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "If countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men-a man's world. Here, Chris Enss, in the latest of her popular books to take on this stereotype, tells the stories of seventeen courageous women who faced down schoolrooms full of children on the open prairies and in the mining towns of the Old West. Now with five new teachers covered , the second edition of Frontier Teachers brings these important stories to light"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Bethenia Owens-Adair : the student teacher -- Tabitha Brown : the grandmother teacher -- Eliza Stewart Boyd : the history making teacher -- Hannah Clapp : the university teacher -- Mary Graves Clark : the sorrowful teacher -- Lucia Darling : the Montana teacher -- Sarah Herring Sorin : the attorney teacher -- Olive Mann Isbell : the mission teacher -- Mary Gray McLench : the Oregon teacher -- Catherine Beecher : educational pioneer -- Eliza Mott : the Carson Valley teacher -- Sarah Royce : the philosopher's teacher -- Sister Mary Russell and the Sisters of Mercy : the orphan's teacher -- Sister Blandina Segale : the outlaw's teacher -- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin : the Yankton Sioux teacher -- Anna Webber : the prairie teacher -- Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins : the Paiute princess teacher. 650 0 $a Women teachers $z West (U.S.) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women teachers $z West (U.S.) $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Frontier and pioneer life $z West (U.S.) 650 0 $a Education $z West (U.S.) $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Women pioneers $z West (U.S.) $v Biography. 651 0 $a West (U.S.) $v Biography. 651 0 $a West (U.S.) $x History $y 1848-1860. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 776 08 $i Online version: $a Enss, Chris, 1961- $t Frontier teachers $b Second edition. $d Essex, Connecticut : TwoDot, 2023 $z 9781493064786 $w (DLC) 2023015907 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305042805.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4CDD79CCAAD111EE853AF3262BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search