Description |
x, 149 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
Series |
More than petticoats |
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More than petticoats series.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Lucy Hobbs Taylor, the woman who pulled teeth -- Carry Nation, evangelist, hatchet wielder, saloon smasher, frequent prisoner -- Mary Elizabeth Lease, advocate for the people, lawyer for the poor -- Lilla Day Monroe, suffragist and journalist, counting women's votes and stories -- Susanna Madora Salter, the accidental Mayor of Argonia -- Ann Clarke, escaped slave, seeker of freedom -- Harvey girls, independent frontier women, serving meals and settling towns -- Nora Holt, classical composer, Harlem renaissance notable, tabloid sweetheart -- Ella Deloria, Sioux anthropologist, teacher, and novelist -- Peggy Hull, foreign war correspondent, soldiering through adversity -- Osa Johnson, bold adventurer, world traveler...and homebody at heart? -- Amelia Earhart, celebrity, great unsolved mystery, and possible castaway. |
Subject |
Women -- Kansas -- Biography.
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Women -- Kansas -- History.
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Kansas -- Biography.
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Added Title |
Remarkable Kansas women |
ISBN |
9780762760275 |
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0762760273 |
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