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This lively book, now available in paperback, focuses on the women responsible for educating prairie children. Most were natives of the region, often teenaged girls away from home for the first time. Teaching under difficult circumstances, schoolwomen not only struggled to meet their students needs but also used all the means at their disposalsummer institutes, normal schools, and even reading programs by mailto upgrade their own educational credentials.
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Schoolwomen of the Prairies and Plains : Personal Narratives From Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, 1860s-1920s
author
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Cordier, Mary Hurlbut.
publisher
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University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin
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082631774X
print isbn13
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9780826317742
ebook isbn13
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9780585211398
language
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English
subject
Women teachers--Middle West--Social conditions, Education--Middle West--History--19th century, Women teachers--Iowa--Biography, Women teachers--Kansas--Biography, Women teachers--Nebraska--Biography.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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LB2837.C66 1998eb
ddc
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subject
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Women teachers--Middle West--Social conditions, Education--Middle West--History--19th century, Women teachers--Iowa--Biography, Women teachers--Kansas--Biography, Women teachers--Nebraska--Biography.
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Schoolwomen of the Prairies and Plains
Personal Narratives from Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, 1860s1920s
Mary Hurlbut Cordier
The University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque
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To the schoolwomen of the prairies and plains who lived with traditions to be honored and changed the traditions to be outgrown. May the schoolwomen of today and tomorrow continue to seek to know the difference.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cordier, Mary Hurlbut, 1930 Schoolwomen of the prairies and plains : personal narratives from Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, 1860s 1920s / Mary Hurlbut Cordier.1st ed. p. cm. With some primary material by Nancy Rebecca Higgins Gaddis, Missouri, 1862 1942 and others. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8263-1774-x 1. Women teachersMiddle WestSocial conditions. 2. EducationMiddle WestHistory19th century. 3. Women teachersIowaBiography. 4. Women teachersKansasBiography. 5. Women teachersNebraskaBiography. I. Title. LB2837.C661992 371.1'0092'2dc20 92-493 CIP
1992 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. Second paperbound printing, 1998
Designed by Linda Mae Tratechaud
Portions of chapters 1, 2, and 3 were first published in Great Plains Quarterly 8:2 (Spring 1988: 10219 and Plainswoman 10:6 (March 1987): 35. A condensed version of chapter 9 was previously published in "The History of Women in Education in Greater Kalamazoo, a Regional History Project Commemorating National Women's History Week, 'Heritage of Strength and Vision,'" Supplement to The Western Herald (March 1989): Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 5. Reprinted by permission.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
Part I. The Educational and Historical Setting
Chapter 1. The Schoolwomen of the Prairies and Plains, 1860s1920s
9
Chapter 2. Educating the Schoolwomen of the Heartland
45
Chapter 3. The Social and Physical Landscape of the Schoolwomen's Living Conditions
77
Chapter 4. Teaching and Learning in the Schools of the Prairies and Plains
109
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Part II. Seeing the Context, Hearing the Voice Introduction to Five Lives
143
Chapter 5. "A Sense of Unity" Nancy Rebecca Higgins Gaddis, Missouri, 18621875; Nebraska, 18751942
149
Chapter 6. "Greater Usefulness in My Calling" Sarah Jane Price, Ohio, 18411843; Indiana, 18431874; Iowa, 18741876; Nebraska, 18761920
175
Chapter 7. "To Be a Teacher" Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, Iowa, 18851955
209
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Chapter 8. "Attaining My Lifelong Ambition" Bessie M. Tucker Gilmer, Nebraska, 18981992
245
Chapter 9. "Teachers Are Leaders" Ethel Hale Russel, Nebraska, 18951916; Idaho, 19161917; Utah, 19171919; Iowa, 19191922; and Michigan, 1922-
275
Epilogue: "They Left Their Mark"
293
Abbreviations
299
Notes
301
Selected Bibliography
341
Index
355
Page ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Western Michigan University has supported the research for this book in part, through two faculty fellowships and research grants, and a sabbatical leave. The Department of Education and Professional Development, College of Education, enabled me to take a one-semester leave of absence in order to complete the manuscript. My thanks to all who made these leaves and grants possible.
My research was aided by the Graduate College, Western Michigan University, in providing Marilyn Branch-Myers as a research assistant for one semester. Marilyn has continued her support and interest far beyond that one semester commitment. Bettina Meyer and Heidi Rawson-Ketchum of the Inter-Library Loan Services of Western Michigan University Libraries have facilitated my research through obtaining the resources of many libraries. Wayne Mann, director, and the staff of the Regional History Collection, Western Michigan University, have assisted me by providing access to documents, obtaining census records, and through their continued interest in the project.
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