I used to perform the old folk song, “Waggoner’s Lad” and the first lines were “Hard luck is the fortune of all womenkind. They’re always...
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Pioneer Women
Pearl Hart: “The Girl Bandit”
For most of her life Pearl Hart lived in dismal obscurity. She got her chance for fifteen minutes of fame following a bungled stagecoach robbery on...
A Woman’s Perspective of Life on the Oregon Trail
For the most part, the women did not want to leave home. They only went because their husbands or fathers insisted. And on the journey, they cooked...
Pioneer Women Menstrual and Yeast Infections
Recently I received a letter from a grad student who was having trouble finding the answers to questions she had about how pioneer women coped with...