Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier Specialty Riding Growing up on a Kansas

Growing up on a Kansas farm that shared a border with Fort Riley

Casey's going to give it a try

And Alex has her eye on something besides the winner's circle: a funny-faced filly

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In the quiet moments spent with the horse each day

Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier Specialty Riding Growing up on a KansasAuthor: Joanna Stratton From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as uncommonly interesting and a remarkable distillation of primary sources. Never before has there been such a detailed record of womens courage, such a living portrait of the women who civilized the American frontier. Here are their