Useful Links
Articles about influential women in the west
https://time.com/3662361/women-american-west/
Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, Pearl Hart
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/women-of-the-wild-west/
Women of the American West: Nonfiction Books
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/08/21/outlaws-adventurers-women-old-west
What Was Life Like for the Pioneer Women of the Wild West?
https://www.historyhit.com/women-in-the-wild-west/
https://time.com/3662361/women-american-west/
Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, Pearl Hart
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/women-of-the-wild-west/
Women of the American West: Nonfiction Books
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/08/21/outlaws-adventurers-women-old-west
What Was Life Like for the Pioneer Women of the Wild West?
https://www.historyhit.com/women-in-the-wild-west/
Suggested Reading
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
https://www.amazon.com/Peace-Came-Form-Woman-Borderlands/dp/0807857904
Women on the Texas Frontier: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Texas-Frontier-Cross-Cultural-SOUTHWESTERN/dp/0874041309
Conversations With Pioneer Women
https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Pioneer-Oregon-country-library/dp/0931742080
Not Just a Housewife: The Changing Roles of Women in the West (1890-1920)
https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/explore/just-housewife-changing-roles-women-west/
https://www.amazon.com/Peace-Came-Form-Woman-Borderlands/dp/0807857904
Women on the Texas Frontier: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Texas-Frontier-Cross-Cultural-SOUTHWESTERN/dp/0874041309
Conversations With Pioneer Women
https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Pioneer-Oregon-country-library/dp/0931742080
Not Just a Housewife: The Changing Roles of Women in the West (1890-1920)
https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/explore/just-housewife-changing-roles-women-west/
Teaching Materials
From the Women's West Teaching Guide: Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century American West
https://www-jstor-org.udel.idm.oclc.org/stable/pdf/25162597.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A76496f39ec15e66f3e9f6f7298cb4df9&ab_segments=0%2FSYC-6442%2Ftest&origin=&acceptTC=1
https://www-jstor-org.udel.idm.oclc.org/stable/pdf/25162597.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A76496f39ec15e66f3e9f6f7298cb4df9&ab_segments=0%2FSYC-6442%2Ftest&origin=&acceptTC=1
The African American Women of the Wild West
Below are the stories of six women and the exciting and inspiring lives they led when they went West.
https://www.sigtheatre.org/events/201920/gp/the-african-american-women-of-the-wild-west/
African American Women on the Western Frontier
https://www-jstor-org.udel.idm.oclc.org/stable/pdf/24766796.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Af8f164bcde2c917091718dd6ec3da086&ab_segments=0%2FSYC-6442%2Ftest&origin=
The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
https://www.amazon.com/Black-West-Documentary-Pictorial-Expansion/dp/0684814781
https://www.sigtheatre.org/events/201920/gp/the-african-american-women-of-the-wild-west/
African American Women on the Western Frontier
https://www-jstor-org.udel.idm.oclc.org/stable/pdf/24766796.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Af8f164bcde2c917091718dd6ec3da086&ab_segments=0%2FSYC-6442%2Ftest&origin=
The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
https://www.amazon.com/Black-West-Documentary-Pictorial-Expansion/dp/0684814781
Annie Oakley
Biographies
https://centerofthewest.org/explore/buffalo-bill/research/annie-oakley/
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/annie-oakley
Both lucky and extremely talented, Annie Oakley used her astonishing marksmanship to escape a poor childhood in Ohio and become the first female superstar in what had been a male-dominated profession.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/oakley-annie/
Frequently Asked Questions About Annie Oakley
https://www.annieoakleycenterfoundation.com/faq.html
Browse a selection of posters promoting Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/oakley-photo-gallery/
https://centerofthewest.org/explore/buffalo-bill/research/annie-oakley/
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/annie-oakley
Both lucky and extremely talented, Annie Oakley used her astonishing marksmanship to escape a poor childhood in Ohio and become the first female superstar in what had been a male-dominated profession.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/oakley-annie/
Frequently Asked Questions About Annie Oakley
https://www.annieoakleycenterfoundation.com/faq.html
Browse a selection of posters promoting Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/oakley-photo-gallery/
Kate Dunlap & Mary Donoho
Kate Dunlap’s diary available on the Library of Congress website.
https://thediaryofkatedunlap.umwblogs.org/
Mary Donoho (1807-1880)
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/mary-donoho/
Mary Donoho: New First Lady of the Santa Fe Trail
https://www.amazon.com/Mary-Donoho-First-Santa-Trail/dp/0941270696
Santa Fe Trail: 200 years later- Women helped blaze trail
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/women-helped-blaze-trail/article_ce1f56da-368f-11ec-a05f-f7e2356e9a00.html
https://thediaryofkatedunlap.umwblogs.org/
Mary Donoho (1807-1880)
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/mary-donoho/
Mary Donoho: New First Lady of the Santa Fe Trail
https://www.amazon.com/Mary-Donoho-First-Santa-Trail/dp/0941270696
Santa Fe Trail: 200 years later- Women helped blaze trail
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/women-helped-blaze-trail/article_ce1f56da-368f-11ec-a05f-f7e2356e9a00.html
Susan Shelby Magoffin
Susan Shelby Magoffin (1827-1855)
https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/susan-shelby-magoffin
Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847
https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2014/05/susan-shelby-magoffin.html
Biddy Mason
California landowner and philanthropist
https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2013/05/biddy-mason.html
Short biography
https://www.nps.gov/people/biddymason.htm
Biography
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mason-bridget-biddy-1818-1891/
From Enslaved to Entrepreneur
Born enslaved in Georgia, Bridget “Biddy” Mason walked more than 2,000 miles through rugged terrain to California where she eventually won her freedom in a landmark court case and became a celebrated philanthropist.
https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/biddy-mason.html
Biddy Mason: One of LA’s first black real estate moguls
Biddy Mason was enslaved when she was brought to Los Angeles in 1851; she died free—and one of the city’s wealthiest women
https://la.curbed.com/2017/3/1/14756308/biddy-mason-california-black-history
https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2013/05/biddy-mason.html
Short biography
https://www.nps.gov/people/biddymason.htm
Biography
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/mason-bridget-biddy-1818-1891/
From Enslaved to Entrepreneur
Born enslaved in Georgia, Bridget “Biddy” Mason walked more than 2,000 miles through rugged terrain to California where she eventually won her freedom in a landmark court case and became a celebrated philanthropist.
https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/biddy-mason.html
Biddy Mason: One of LA’s first black real estate moguls
Biddy Mason was enslaved when she was brought to Los Angeles in 1851; she died free—and one of the city’s wealthiest women
https://la.curbed.com/2017/3/1/14756308/biddy-mason-california-black-history
Henrietta Williams Foster
Influential Women of South Texas: Aunt Rittie, Henrietta Williams Foster
https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2020/03/26/women-south-texas-aunt-rittie-henrietta-williams-foster/4833579002/
Black Cowboys of Texas (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University Book 86)
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005IWCEQS
https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2020/03/26/women-south-texas-aunt-rittie-henrietta-williams-foster/4833579002/
Black Cowboys of Texas (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University Book 86)
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005IWCEQS
Mary Ellen Pleasant
Hailed as the mother of civil rights in California, Mary Ellen Pleasant was a self-made millionaire and leading abolitionist during the Gold-Rush era.
https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/mary-ellen-pleasant.html
Biographies
https://www.nps.gov/people/mary-ellen-pleasant.htm
https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2013/01/mary-ellen-pleasant.html
Making of Mammy Pleasant
https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart2/ChicagoBook?ISBN=978-0-252-07527-8&press=illinois&_ga=2.196781609.428105157.1656098103-1732098018.1656098103
How Mary Ellen Pleasant Became one of the First Black Millionaires
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/14/how-mary-ellen-pleasant-became-one-of-the-first-black-millionaires.html
Nearly a century before Rosa Parks, neighborhood resident Mary Ellen Pleasant sued a local transportation company for not letting her and other African Americans ride. And she won.
https://newfillmore.com/fillmore-classics/dont-call-her-mammy/
lesson
https://wams.nyhistory.org/industry-and-empire/expansion-and-empire/mary-ellen-pleasant/
https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/mary-ellen-pleasant.html
Biographies
https://www.nps.gov/people/mary-ellen-pleasant.htm
https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2013/01/mary-ellen-pleasant.html
Making of Mammy Pleasant
https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart2/ChicagoBook?ISBN=978-0-252-07527-8&press=illinois&_ga=2.196781609.428105157.1656098103-1732098018.1656098103
How Mary Ellen Pleasant Became one of the First Black Millionaires
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/14/how-mary-ellen-pleasant-became-one-of-the-first-black-millionaires.html
Nearly a century before Rosa Parks, neighborhood resident Mary Ellen Pleasant sued a local transportation company for not letting her and other African Americans ride. And she won.
https://newfillmore.com/fillmore-classics/dont-call-her-mammy/
lesson
https://wams.nyhistory.org/industry-and-empire/expansion-and-empire/mary-ellen-pleasant/
Laura Ingalls Wilder
About Laura ingalls wilder (1867-1957)
https://www.littlehousebooks.com/about
https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/laura-ingalls-wilder
Laura truly lived a pioneer life, and through her writings of the Little House books, we are better able to understand the lives of common people of her generation, particularly during the time of westward expansion in America.
https://lauraingallswilderhome.com/travels-of-a-pioneer-girl/
https://www.littlehousebooks.com/about
https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/laura-ingalls-wilder
Laura truly lived a pioneer life, and through her writings of the Little House books, we are better able to understand the lives of common people of her generation, particularly during the time of westward expansion in America.
https://lauraingallswilderhome.com/travels-of-a-pioneer-girl/