Reviews for Woman on the American Frontier. a Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures,...

The average rating for Woman on the American Frontier. a Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures,... based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-08-12 00:00:00 Paul Hoeft The book has been fascinating to read. The lives of the women that came before us and forged a way into the wilderness that we now call home is beyond imagination. I always wondered what it would be like to have been a pioneer, and the experiences of the women in this book tell it all. Stories from east coast to west coast, from the 1600's to the 1800's, this book makes you think about what women had to do and endure. It's a very long book, so many stories, I could not read it all at once. Too much to take in.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-01-07 00:00:00 Leander Mase Although I am quite aware that this book was written more than a century ago, and that the opinions and human feeling toward other races were quite different at that time, I was still rather bothered by the intense bashing of the Native American in this book. It was also fraught with a great deal of religious mush that took a lot of the enjoyment away from it. Rather than being an unbiased history, it was one man's opinion of the west. The ideas of women during the time this book was written are highlighted by the maleness of the author. These things, of themselves would not have bothered me as much as the various places where history has been re-written and/or whitewashed to emphasize the author's whiteness. Not a great book to learn about the west.