Frontier Grit, Revised Edition: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women

Discover the stories of twelve women who “heard the call” to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey.

When she was enslaved, Clara watched as her husband and children were trafficked, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter, as a free woman, six decades later.

As a young girl, Charlotte hid her gender to escape a life of poverty and became the greatest stagecoach driver that ever lived.

As a Yankton-Nakota Sioux, Gertrude fought to give her In...