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Women Icons of the West: Five Women Who Forged the American Frontier
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Start date
July 12, 2012
Finish date
July 14, 2012
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Vacation in Colorado this summer!

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Julia
Jul 14, 2012 rated it liked it
Shelves: womens-studies
The introduction states that "this book is a work of creative nonfiction". The author writes vignettes as if they were told by the women being profiled and by people that they met during their experiences. However, it isn't actually in there own words and in some cases may not even be by specific people. I did learn something about these women by reading the book, but if I had realized this earlier I would have bought an actual biography instead.

The women profiled are Isabella Bird, Clara Brown,
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