Amazing Girls of Arizona
True Stories of Young Pioneers
Globe Pequot Publishing · Print & ebook · November 1, 2007
Growing up can be hard enough, but when you are a teenage girl on the western frontier every day is a lesson in survival.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in true stories of girls on the Arizona frontier
- Themes
- Frontier survival, Young women pioneers, Developing artistic talent
- Genres
- Southwest U.S. History
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Growing up can be hard enough, but when you are a teenage girl on the western frontier every day is a lesson in survival. From being held captive by a Native American tribe (like Olive Ann Oatman), to mastering the dangerous business of wrangling cattle (like Edith Jane Bass), Amazing Girls of Arizona captures the remarkable lives of eleven real American girls (all seventeen years old or younger) who were pioneers of their time.
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Meet Laurette Lovell, born in 1869 with a severe leg deformity, who at age thirteen started on her path to be a renowned pottery artist and painter. Edith Bass, born in 1896, began wrangling mules before the age of nine, leading pack strings up and down the dangerous paths into the Grand Canyon. These two young women, and nine others, are profiled alongside historic photographs. Today’s readers will enjoy these stories of real girls who conquered the frontiers of Arizona in their own style.
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| Southwest U.S. History | 43% |
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Publisher categories
- U.S. History
- U.S. State & Local History
- Southwest U.S. History
- Authors
- Jan Cleere
- Publisher
- Globe Pequot Publishing
- Published
- November 1, 2007
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Frontier survival · Young women pioneers · Developing artistic talent
- Reading lane
- U.S. History