Mrs. Davies was accustomed to handle a gun and was a good shot,
like many other women on the frontier. She contemplated as a last
resort that, if not rescued in the course of the day, when night
came and the Indians had fallen asleep, she would deliver herself
and her children by killing as many of the Indians as she could,
believing that in a night attack the rest would fly
panic-stricken.-from "Chapter IX: Some Remarkable Women"Reading
like the most rousing, rollicking fiction, this is, in the words of
its author, "a valuable and authentic history of the heroism,
adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and
deaths of the 'pioneer mothers of the republic.'" Drawing on
firsthand sources, including the diaries of the women portrayed,
and illustrated with gorgeous line drawings, this compulsively
readable 1878 work documents the role of daring women in the
settling of America, from Mrs. Hannah Nash and her daughter
Deborah, who in the 17th-century rescued all their worldly
possessions from a devastating flood, to Miss M., who in the 19th
century established a schoolhouse on the Illinois prairie. Young
women and old, mothers and daughters and wives and widows,
outwitting wildlife, battling Indians, building homes and towns,
enduring famine and ensuring bounty, the hundreds of women
portrayed here are the "unnamed heroes" of American
history.American writer WILLIAM WORTHINGTON FOWLER (1833-1881)
enjoyed diverse careers as a lawyer, stockbroker, politician, and
journalist. He also wrote Ten Years in Wall Street (1870).
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