Pioneer Women, Their Trials and Heroism:: True Accounts of Western Frontier Life and Struggle in the Most Heroic Age of America

"Exceptional genius is shown in the works of Charles McKnight." -History of Pittsburgh

The history of our western border may well be deemed a record of woman's trials, privations and heroic deeds. How tender, shrinking women ever had the heart to expose themselves, as they did, to all the Protean perils of the savage wilderness, is the marvel of the present day. They seemed to be richly and peculiarly endowed to suit the times and the localities in which their lots were cast. We may be sure ...