Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West

By Chris Enss

If countless books and movies are to be believed, America's Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men--a man's world. Here, Chris Enss, in the latest of her popular books to take on this stereotype, tells the stories of twelve courageous women who faced down schoolrooms full of children on the open prairies and in the mining towns of the Old West. Now with five new teachers covered and a new chapter, the second edition of Frontier Teachers brings these important stories to light.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493064770
• ISBN13: 9781493064779
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Two Dot Books
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Trailblazing Teachers

Frontier Teachers (Nonfiction) Chris Enss, Globe Pequot, $14.95, Softcover. By: Linda Wommack 01/01/2009 Teachers were the female trailblazers of the West, yet they often are overlooked. Thanks to Chris Enss, who once again breaks new ground in the realm of historic women, we learn teachers often inspired many who went on to progress in the frontier. She tells the stories of 12 women who come from different circumstances but share the same goal--furthering education. Eliza Mott taught the alphabet from tombstone inscriptions, while Lucia Darling taught in a one-room cabin that was the first school in Montana Territory. Their experiences were enough to pass on wisdom; and their knowledge still educates generations today.