Bibliograph

Frontier teachers, stories of heroic women of the old West, Chris Enss

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Frontier teachers, stories of heroic women of the old West, Chris Enss

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-139) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Frontier teachers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

213838772

Responsibility statement

Chris Enss

Sub title

stories of heroic women of the old West

Summary

Frontier Teachers tells the stories of a dozen courageous, intrepid women who faced down rooms full of children on the open prairies and in the mining towns of the Old West to bring them educational opportunities

Table Of Contents

Foreword / by David Sanchez -- Introduction -- Sister Blandina Segale: the outlaw's teacher -- Mary Graves Clarke: the sorrowful teacher -- Eliza Mott: the Carson Valley teacher -- Anna Webber: the prairie teacher -- Tabitha Brown: the grandmother teacher -- Olive Mann Isbell: the mission teacher -- Lucia Darling: the Montana teacher -- Sarah Royce: the philosopher's teacher -- Mary Gray McLench: the Oregon teacher -- Sister Mary Russell and the Sisters of Mercy: the orphans' teacher -- Hannah Clapp: the university teacher -- Bethenia Owens-Adair: the student teacher

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