Trailblazers: Twenty Amazing Western Women
- ISBN-10
- 0873587839
- ISBN-13
- 9780873587839
- Series
- Trailblazers
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Northland Pub
- Author
- Karen Mulford
Description
Profiles the lives and achievements of twenty notable women from a variety of racial, religious, professional, and class backgrounds whose actions created new opportunities for American women; arranged chronologically by date of birth from 1805 to 1930.
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