Cow and buffalo manure, called chips, was the primary source of fuel for fires.

Native Americans, bullied and tricked by government land treaties in a perpetual effort to push them west, sometimes rebelled and turned violent, offering one more danger for the frontier family.Ĭorn was the chief crop and the staple of the frontier diet. Fire, tornadoes, floods, droughts, blizzards, and even grasshopper infestations were constant sources of worry and strife on the plains. Water, timber, and good land were oftentimes hard to come by those who couldn't build a log cabin had to make do with sod houses made with bricks carved from the very land itself. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 lured many settlers to the Kansas Territory with the promise of cheap land.

Intent on providing a platform for the forgotten voices of the past, this historical account is interwoven with excerpts from personal correspondence, diaries, and memoirs from some of the ordinary women who struggled through frontier life first-hand. N° de ref.PIONEER WOMEN: VOICES FROM THE KANSAS FRONTIER recounts the history of frontier life in Kansas in the latter half of the nineteenth century. 15 chapters: 1,To the Stars Through Wilderness: The Journey 2, Homes of Puncheon, Homes of Sod: The Settlement 3, Aprons & Plows: Daily Life on the Prairie 4, Days of Valor: Fighting the Wild 5, Days of Darkness: Fighting the Elements 6, The Clashings of Cultures: Indians 7, A Social People 8, A Prairie Childhoon 9, Classrooms & Schoolmarms 10, The Frontier Church 11, The Frontier Town 12, The Cow Town 13, The Immigrant Community: Victoria 14, The Wounds of War and, 15, The Woman Crusaders: Temperance & Suffrage, followed by Appendix: Guide to the Lilla Day Monroe Collection of Pioneer Stories. Author Joanna Stratton will discover the letters in her grandmother's attic, and so we have an extradinary history of frontier times in Kansas from voices of women who lived it through. A leading proponent of women's suffrage, in 1920 she began to solicit remembraces of life experiences from women for an article.

Author Joanna Stratton's grandmother Lilla Day Munroe moved from rural Indiana to Kansas in 1884 where she married and became the first woman to practice law before the Kansas Supreme Court. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace edge wear to soft cover.

Pioneer Women by Joanna L. Stratton