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|  | | Best Friends are Like Suspenders: They Hold You Up When You Are Falling Down
This narrative non-fiction reveals the importance of friendship to women's well-being when they are going through crisis; in this case a woman who loses a daughter to AIDS.
Lacey was taking blood from a full blown AIDS patient when a nurse bumped into her causing her to stick herself with the needle. She rushed to the laboratory and vomited.
| |  | | Covered Wagon Women
These Audio Cassettes are the personal diaries of women crossing America in covered wagons, told of the ingenuity, courage, bravery, loneliness, fear, boredom, excitement and danger they encountered. They were called "overlanders."
Margaret Frink's diary was a great discovery describing her observations of the cholera epidemic, the social encounters with the Indians who followed the wagons, and the cost of provisions along the way. | |  | | Covered Wagon Women:Diaries and Letters From The Western Trails, 1851
Lucia Williams relates the hellish trip over the Cascades from Ohio to Oregon. Jean Rio Baker is a Mormon from England who travels to Utah.
"Overlanders" had their biological warfare in cholera, smallpox, and measles. Their terrorism was from Indian attacks. The words of these pioneer women convey their courage, exhaustion and terror in traveling so far into the unknown.
Jean Rio Baker, 41, was a Mormon widow with six children who traveled by Windjammer from Liverpool to America and by prairie schooner to Salt Lake City.
Emma Lockhart tell of tornados, sunbonnets and a child's death on her trip from Ohio to Oregon. Hers is an epilogue of Lucia Williams whose child died without much comment from her. | |  | | Desert Wife
Desert Wife reveals Hilda Faunce's candid style of writing about her life as an Indian trader's wife on the Navajo reservation just before World War I. She faced challenging experiences coming from the Oregon coast to the bleakness of the southwest desert and learning the Navajo language in alien territory.
Learn the interaction between Indians and Whites in their trading. Experience how the Indians coped with sicknesses from the White man. Hear the sweetness of the Indians singing. Find out the misconception of the war when they had to register at Fort Defiance.
Hilda finally learned, in her four years on the reservation, how to appreciate the cultural differences. | |  | | Early History of Mineral and Rio Grande Counties, Colorado
150 articles taken from The Mineral County Miner and South Fork Tines, Creede, Colorado
Sold by Beverly's, Ltd. and in book stores in Colorado | |  | | Vanished Arizona
This cavalry wife's charming memoir on audio is a good look at Old West Arizona
In 1874 when Martha Summerhayes came as a bride from the coast of Nantucket to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory, she learned the hard facts of army life at forts in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California, Nevada, Oregon and Nebraska. |
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