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More than petticoats. Jan Cleere.
- Title
- More than petticoats. Remarkable Nevada women / Jan Cleere.
- Author
- Cleere, Jan
- Publication
- Guilford, CT^^: Globe Pequot Press, 2005.
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- Description
- xiv, 172 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Presents the histories of fourteen pioneer women, all born before 1900, who traveled Nevada Territory while displaying remarkable courage as they broke through social, cultural, and political barriers to advance women's roles.
- Series Statement
- More than petticoats series
- Uniform Title
- More than petticoats series.
- Alternative Title
- Remarkable Nevada women
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-165) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Alison Oram Bowers, 1826-1903 : Eilley's millions -- Ferminia Sarras, 1840-1915 : hard rock miner -- Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, 1844-1891 : a sparrow among eagles -- Dat So La Lee,?-1925, Washoe basket weaver -- Helen Jane Wiser Stewart, 1854-1926 : Las Vegas legend -- Idah Meacham Strobridge, 1855-1932 : sagebrush scribe -- Eliza Cook, 1856-1947 : pills and politics -- Daughters of Charity, 1864-1897 : angels on the Comstock -- Josephine Reed Pearl, 1873-1962 : last of the Calico prospectors -- Anne Henrietta Martin, 1875-1951 : storming political (and police) barriers -- Ah Cum Kee, 1876-1929 : lady of the land -- Maude Frazier, 1881-1963 : education reformer -- Felice Cohn, 1884-1961 : an independent spirit.
- ISBN
- 076272739X
- LCCN
- ^^2004060607
- OCLC
- 57001649
- SCSB-11743937
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library