More than Petticoats: Remarkable Oregon Women

by Gayle Shirley

Overview

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Oregon Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Beaver State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762758661
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2010
Series:	More than Petticoats Series
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.44(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Gayle C. Shirley is the author of ten other books for Globe Pequot Press, including More than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women, Amazing Animals of Oregon, and Four-Legged Legends of Oregon.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xv

Mother of Oregon Tabitha Moffatt Brown 1

Madonna of the Oregon Trail Marie Dorion 11

Missionary Bride Anna Maria Pittman Lee 20

Historian of the Northwest Frances Fuller Victor 31

Path Breaker Abigail Scott Duniway 39

Doctor in Petticoats Bethenia Owens-Adair 54

Lioness of the Law Mary Leonard 65

Premier Policewoman Lola Greene Baldwin 73

Dry-land Homesteader Alice Day Pratt 82

Fettered Poet Hazel Hall 93

Civil Rights Advocate Beatrice Morrow Cannady 104

Prodigy or Fraud? Opal Whiteley 113

Bibliography 127

Index 135

About the Author 142