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Title As I saw it : women who lived the American adventure / collected by Cheryl G. Hoople.

Publication Info. New York : Dial Press, [1978]
©1978

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 973 AS    Check Shelf
Description xii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 186).
Summary Presents excerpts from the diaries, letters, and journals of American women which provide glimpses of United States history and social conditions from 1600 to 1900.
Contents The promised land. Lady Margaret Wyatt ; Maria van Rensselaer ; Mary Rowlandson ; Aulkey Hubertse ; Maria Antonia Pico ; Prudencia Higuera -- The world turned upside down. Ann Hulton ; Abigail Adams ; Elizabeth Drinker -- War of 1812. Dolley Madison -- Westward ho! Susan Shelby Magoffin ; Blackfood Indian wife ; Virginia Reed Murphy ; Sarah Royce ; Lydia Waters ; Mrs. D.B. Bates ; Elizabeth Bacon Custer ; Isabella Bird -- Civil War. Addie Vinson ; Laura S. Haviland ; S. Emma E. Edmonds ; Susie King Taylor ; Mary Ann Loughborough ; Clara Barton -- Life in the west. Narcissa Whitman ; "Dame Shirley" Clappe ; Miriam Colt ; Elinore Pruitt Stewart ; Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair ; Dr. Anna Howard Shaw ; Callie French -- Snakes in the garden. Zitkala-Sa ; Delfina Cuero ; Quene Liliuokalani ; Maria Mitchell ; Lucy Larcom ; "Mother" Mary Harris JOnes ; Ida B. Wells ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton ; Mary Antin.
Subject Women -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History.
United States -- Social conditions.
Women -- History.
Added Author Hoople, Cheryl G.
ISBN 0803703392
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