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Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West
The brand-new edition of Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West is scheduled to be released soon.
Between 1847 and 1858, more than six hundred women teachers traveled across the untamed frontier to provide youngsters with an education, and the numbers grew rapidly in the decades to come, as women took advantage of one of the few career opportunities for respectable work for ladies of the era. Enduring hardship, the sixteen women whose stories are movingly told in the pages of Frontier Teachers demonstrated the utmost dedication and sacrifice necessary to bring formal education to the Wild West. As immortalized in works of art and literature, for many students their women teachers were heroic figures who introduced them to a world of possibilities―and changed America forever.
