Grasp Frontier Teachers: Stories Of Heroic Women Of The Old West Picturized By Chris Enss Depicted In Electronic Format

there are many books about pioneers coming to the west, there are few concerning female teachers, Although the Little House on the Prairie books gave us a glimpse! This book features a biography of twelve women who went far beyond the simple act of teaching by pursuing education and teaching with burning passion.
It is a quick enjoyable read and a stirring tale of defying hardships to attain goals,.stars

Inspiring stories of female teachers traveling west, Many of the stories do focus more on the women's journeys west rather than their years teaching, Its always interesting to read little known history and I have a special interest in everyday womens lives.
The author chose to write a few pages on each teacher, which doesnt allow for much depth, I was most moved by the last highlighted teacher, Bethenia OwensAdair, who overcame difficulties in her personal life and who didnt allow societal stereotypes to change her dreams.
Deciding to find out more about her, I learned that the author had left out her support of eugenics, giving an unbalanced view.
This interesting book tells the stories of women with a love of teaching and looking for adventure, These women wanted to go to the new western frontier and they had an ambition to teach, This book describes the treacherous journey out west that could take up to nine months by covered wagon.
Once these various women arrived at their destinations, things were still tough, Sometimes the schools were small or nonexistant and supplies were in short supply, All the women chronicled in this book persevered and were successful in their teaching endeavors, Six hundred some women went west to bring education to the wild west, Here are the stories of just twelve,

This little book sure does pack a punch, Some of the true life For some of these

women, the story is in how they crossed the wild country to get to where they would teach.
Mary Graves Clarke survived the Donner Party and taught to support herself when her husband was murdered, Other women set out with the intention of teaching when they arrived, such as Mary Gray McLench,

I had expected there to be more information on the difficulties of teaching itself, different ways the teachers would teach in the absence of books.
Brief mentions are made, such as using gravestones to teach reading, and how books were shared, It would have been interesting to see a glimpse of the daytoday life of the teachers, which was only provided in one example: Anna Weber.


Nonetheless, this was an interesting read, and it didnt take long to read it, I would recommend it to readers interested in true stories, A gift from my husband after his trip to Montana : Interesting but not much to sink your teeth into.
It felt like reading a pamphlet that could fly away with one mild gust of wind, These heroic teachers deserved someone more committed to telling their stories! Great stories about the beginning teachers of the old west.
Would be a good book foryear old girls to read, I love everything about the old West, This is the story ofschool teachers who actually taught in very towns during the frontier days, I loved thier stories their gumption, drive, and love of education, I wish I had been one! 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 mena 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.
Betweenand, more thanwomen teachers traveled across the untamed frontier to provide youngsters with an education, and the numbers grew rapidly in the decades to come, as women took advantage of one of the few career opportunities for respectable work for ladies of the era.
Enduring hardship, the dozen women whose stories are movingly told in the pages of Frontier Teachers demonstrated the utmost dedication and sacrifice necessary to bring formal education to the Wild West.
As immortalized in works of art and literature, for many students their women teachers were heroic figures who introduced them to a world of possibilitiesand changed America forever.
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