Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier"If only one book about women in the West were available, this certainly would be an appropriate choice." Westerners Bookshelf Pioneer Women provides a rare look at frontier life through the eyes of the pioneer women who settled the American West. Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith vividly describe the hardships such women endured journeying west and making homes and communities on the frontier. Their hopes and fears and, most of all, their courage in the