Schoolwomen of the Prairies and Plains: Personal Narratives from Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, 1860S-1920s

by Mary Hurlbut Cordier

Book Overview

This lively book, now available in paperback, focuses on the women responsible for educating prairie children. Most were natives of the region, often teenaged girls away from home for the first time. Teaching under difficult circumstances, schoolwomen not only struggled to meet their students' needs but also used all the means at their disposal -- summer institutes, normal schools, and even reading programs by mail -- to upgrade their own educational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082631774X
• ISBN13: 9780826317742
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"