Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Skirting the Unknown

Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier by Joanna L. StrattonThe Stories of Pioneer Women: Close your eyes for a minute and imagine being a women in the mid 1800s. Your family has decided to try their luck in the west, looking for free land. These journeys across the frontier were far from glamorous - it was a life of arduous toil. Women packed their lives into a wagon and traveled for hundreds of miles across the frontier in search of a better life.

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