A fascinating and rare look at women pioneers and their tales of courage and hardship in the untamed American West.These  are the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the West  and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey: the  East Coast, Europe, and as far away as New Zealand. They endured unimaginable hardships just to get to their destination, and then the next phase of their story began.These are gripping miniature dramas of  good-hearted women, selfless providers, courageous immigrants and  migrants, and women with skills too numerable to list. All the women in this book did extraordinary things: One became a stagecoach driver, disguised as a man. One became a frontier doctor. One was a Gold Rush hotel and restaurant entrepreneur. Many were crusaders for social justice and women's rights. All endured hardships, overcame obstacles, broke barriers, and changed the world -- inspiring examples for the modern woman.

Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women

Biographies & Memoirs

Marianne Monson

Community & Culture

Shadow Mountain and Blackstone Audio

Nathan and Aria have a secret ... Things start to get strange when one Sunday after church a game of tag takes the twins under the stage where the chairs are usually kept. Crawling through the dark space, they quickly realize they are no longer in the cultural hall. In fact, they're not even in their own time! Nathan and Aria find themselves with a group of pioneers about to head into the Salt Lake Valley. What will the children learn from the pioneers? How will the twins get back home? Find out in book 1 of The Enchanted Tunnel series!

The Enchanted Tunnel, Book 1: Pioneer Puzzle

Deseret Book

After learning about pioneers in their Primary class, twins Nathan and Aria end up in the gym after church, waiting for their mother. When a game of tag takes them to the space underneath the stage, they soon find themselves at the end of a long tunnel, where a cave opens up and they meet a pioneer boy their age by the name of Joseph F. In Book 1, Pioneer Puzzle, Nathan and Aria learn to gather firewood, milk cows, and round up missing oxen as they discover what it really means to be a pioneer. Book 2, Escape from Egypt, finds the twins in ancient Egypt. All dressed up as pioneers, Nathan and Aria head through the tunnel again. But this time, they find themselves in Egypt on the eve of the Exodus. Excitement turns to fear when the twins must decide if they should head back through the tunnel to escape Pharaoh's army, or help an Israelite boy who has been left behind. - A great way to get beginning readers interested in the scriptures and Church history. - Fun Facts and Author s Notes give readers the "real scoop" behind the stories. For example, in Book 1: Pioneer Puzzle, readers can learn more about the boy, Joseph F., and how he would become the sixth prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Joseph F. Smith. - A delightful read for all ages.

The Enchanted Tunnel, Book 2: Escape from Egypt

The excitement continues for twins Nathan and Aria as they crawl under the cultural hall stage and through the Enchanted Tunnel into two new adventures. In book 3, Journey to Jerusalem, Nathan and Aria head to the Far East and Solomon s Temple, where they hear twelve-yearold Jesus teaching the priests.

The Enchanted Tunnel, Book 3: Journey to Jerusalem

Deseret Book Company

The excitement continues for twins Nathan and Aria as they crawl under the cultural hall stage and through the Enchanted Tunnel into two new adventures. In book 4, Wandering in the Wilderness, the Enchanted Tunnel takes Nathan and Aria to the Arabian Peninsula, where they learn about faith and hard work from Nephi and his brothers, and help Nephi fix his broken bow.

The Enchanted Tunnel, Book 4: Wandering in the Wilderness

Discover the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched helpless as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter, as a free woman, six decades later. As a young girl, Charlotte hid her gender to escape a life of poverty and became the greatest stagecoach driver that ever lived. As a Native American, Gertrude fought to give her people a voice and to educate leaders about the ways and importance of America's native people. These are gripping miniature dramas of good-hearted women, selfless providers, courageous immigrants and migrants, and women with skills too innumerable to list. Many were crusaders for social justice and women's rights. All endured hardships, overcame obstacles, broke barriers, and changed the world. The author ties the stories of these pioneer women to the experiences of women today with the hope that they will be inspired to live boldly and bravely and to fill their own lives with vision, faith, and fortitude. To live with grit.

Shadow Mountain

Hidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes--women. North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant--the women in these micro-drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy, from tending to the wounded on the battlefield to spiriting away slaves through the Underground Railroad, from donning a uniform and fighting unrecognized alongside the men to working as spies for either side. This book brings to light the incredible stories of women from the Civil War that remain relevant to our nation today. Each woman's experience helps us see a truer, fuller, richer version of what really happened in this country during this time period.

Women of the Blue and Gray: True Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies of the Civil War

An historically rich novel that brings to life the fascinating story of America’s first female state senator, Martha Hughes Cannon, who was also a doctor, suffragist, and champion of public health in the frontier territory of Utah in the late 19th century. As a young girl traveling to Utah by wagon in 1861, Martha, or Mattie as she was called, was deeply influenced by the early struggles her family endured as frontier pioneers, including the premature deaths of her baby sister and father. From those early experiences, she found her calling. Alleviating physical suffering and healing became her goals, and Mattie worked with astounding dedication and resolve to achieve these goals. She began teaching school at age fourteen and worked as a typesetter for the influential Women’s Exponent newspaper to pay for college where she graduated with a degree in chemistry. In 1880, Mattie stepped into the lecture hall of the University of Michigan medical school, the only woman in the class and one of a handful of women to attend the school in its history. The room erupted at her entrance—laughter, scoffing, voices calling out, and more than one person muttering about the “hen medic.” Many male professors, thinking it indelicate, refused to discuss anatomy if women students were in the room, and they were often forced to observe from an annex area outside the regular classroom. Resolved and single-minded, Mattie graduated from medical school at the age of twenty-three, the only female in her class. As a doctor, she returned to frontier Utah, set up a medical practice, and established classes for midwives where she lectured on obstetrics. As a suffragette, she was outspoken at the Columbia Exposition of Chicago, where she delivered a rousing speech on behalf of women’s rights. She married in secrecy at age twenty-seven, and later lived in exile for two years because her husband practiced plural marriage, which was illegal, and she didn’t want to testify against him. She returned to Utah in 1888 and took an active part in politics and women’s suffrage. She ran for office as a Democrat against the Republican candidate, who was her husband and won, becoming the first woman ever elected as a state senator in the US. This is the first historical fiction novel based on the real life of Martha Hughes Cannon, a woman whose extraordinary life as a pioneer woman paralleled the life of the nation, struggling to grow and expand westward, wrestling with the rights and freedoms guaranteed to all its citizens, including women, and overcoming tremendous odds and roadblocks by forging the uniquely American spirit of the west: independence, innovation, dedication, and stick-to-itiveness which defined her generation and this chapter in American history.

Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon: Frontier Doctor and First Female State Senator

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

An historically rich novel that brings to life the fascinating story of America's first female state senator, Martha Hughes Cannon, who was also a doctor, suffragist, and champion of public health in the frontier territory of Utah in the late 19th century. As a young girl traveling to Utah by wagon in 1861, Martha, or Mattie as she was called, was deeply influenced by the early struggles her family endured as frontier pioneers, including the premature deaths of her baby sister and father. From those early experiences, she found her calling. Alleviating physical suffering and healing became her goals, and Mattie worked with astounding dedication and resolve to achieve those goals. She began teaching school at age fourteen and worked as a typesetter for the influential Women's Exponent newspaper to pay for college where she graduated with a degree in chemistry. In 1880, Mattie stepped into the lecture hall of the University of Michigan medical school, the only woman in the class and one of a handful of women to attend the school in its history. The room erupted at her entrance--laughter, scoffing, voices calling out, and more than one person muttering about the "hen medic." Many male professors, thinking it indelicate, refused to discuss anatomy if women students were in the room, and they were often forced to observe from an annex area outside the regular classroom. Resolved and single-minded, Mattie graduated from medical school at the age twenty-three, the only female in her class. As a doctor, she returned to frontier Utah, set up a medical practice, and established classes for midwives where she lectured on obstetrics. As a suffragette, she was outspoken at the Columbia Exposition of Chicago, where she delivered a rousing speech on behalf of women's rights. She married in secrecy at age twenty-seen, and later lived in exile for two years because her husband practiced plural marriage, which was illegal, and she didn't want to testify against him. She returned to Utah in 1888 and took an active part in politics and women's suffrage. She ran for office as a Democrat against the Republican candidate, who was her husband and won, becoming the first woman ever elected as a state senator in the US. This is the first historical fiction novel based on the real life of Martha Hughes Cannon, a woman whose extraordinary life as a pioneer woman paralleled the life of the nation, struggling to grow and expand westward, wrestling with the rights and freedoms guaranteed to all its citizens, including women, and overcoming tremendous odds and roadblocks by forging the uniquely American spirit of the west: independence, innovation, dedication, and stick-to-itiveness which defined her generation and this chapter in American history.

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Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women

The Enchanted Tunnel, Book 1: Pioneer Puzzle

The Enchanted Tunnel, Book 2: Escape from Egypt

The Enchanted Tunnel, Book 3: Journey to Jerusalem

The Enchanted Tunnel, Book 4: Wandering in the Wilderness

Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women

Women of the Blue and Gray: True Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies of the Civil War

Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon: Frontier Doctor and First Female State Senator

Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon: Frontier Doctor and First Female State Senator