Home >> Society >> History >> By Region >> North America >> United States >> West >> Personalities >> Women   Calamity Jane   Canary, Martha Jane   Oakley, Annie Women Pioneers in American Memory Features stories about the strong and determined women who were an integral part of the migration to different parts of the country seeking new opportunities. Ghosts Now, Real Then (1879-1920) A 19-year-old orphan, Ella Gertrude Eskridge, works as a housekeeper until the fiddler at a country dance marries her to take care of his kids. Natalie Curtis Burlin Life and work of the ethnomusicologist, folklorist, and author of "The Indians' Book," who traveled in the West, working among the Hopi and other tribes.
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