Women Pioneers of Public Education: How Culture Came to the Wild West

by J. Herbst

Overview

The book narrates the story of how the school, founded by women pioneers of public education in a Rocky Mountain mining settlement, became the centre and sustaining force of the town's community life from its beginning in the 1870s to the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230608351
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/12/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	217
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	3 Months

About the Author

JURGEN HERBST is Professor Emeritus of Educational Policy Studies and History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and Professional Associate of Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, USA.

Table of Contents

Beginnings A House of Many Uses Town and School in a Wilderness A Settlement Takes Hold At High Tide School and Town in the Eighties A School in Crisis The Turbulent Nineties Silverton's Life at Century's End Silverton Enters the 20th Century Public Schooling's Triumph: High School Graduation Looking Backward and Looking Forward